Ranked Choice Voting Is a Scam – Larger Elections Almost Certainly Require Machines Making Results Barely Auditable
Ranked Choice voting is a lie – It’s a scam.
A foreign-born Islamic communist “won” New York City’s Democrat Primary for governor in the city’s ranked choice primary last night.
How could this happen? It’s almost exclusively due to ranked choice voting.
New York City claims that ranked choice voting has at least three benefits:
What are the benefits of ranked choice voting?
There are several ways that ranked choice voting could benefit New York City voters:
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- It gives you more say in who gets elected. Even if your top choice candidate does not win, you can still help choose who does.
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- It gives you more choices. You can rank up to five candidates, allowing you to support your favorite candidate without worrying about whether they’re likely to win.
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- More diverse candidates win elections. Cities that have implemented ranked choice voting have elected more women and more women of color, making their elected officials more representative of their communities.
According to NYC propaganda, Ranked Choice Voting is easy.
Realistically Ranked Choice Voting is all a scam. The progressive Left is behind Ranked Choice Voting and we see the results every time results are eventually produced.
According to the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) ranked choice advocacy organizations claim that this method can improve voter confidence by providing more candidate choices, decreasing negative campaigning, and ensuring majority rule. But these are false promises, and the proliferation of ranked choice is harmful to American elections.
One challenge with ranked choice is that voters must understand multiple candidates as opposed to only one. When there are multiple candidates in a race this can be daunting.
Although proponents say it’s easy, casting a vote in a ranked choice election is difficult. Instructions are generally cumbersome, often confusing voters. Error rates for RCV elections remain higher than those of traditional elections. This results are more citizens having their votes thrown away because of an overly complex system.
In addition, winners of ranked choice races do not necessarily represent the choice of all voters who participated. A study of Maine elections found that, of 98 recent ranked choice elections, 60 percent of the victors did not win by a majority of the total votes cast.
Also as expected, voter turnout in ranked choice elections is less than with traditional elections.
Ballots counted in ranked choice voting must be transported to a central location. The chain of custody surrounding this process is increased with ballots (not only absentee ballots) shipped to this central hub. The more ballots are moved and the further they are moved, the higher the risk embedded in the process. It is almost certain that at least some ranked choice ballots must be transported.
Because of the process, it can take days and weeks to determine the final winner in a ranked choice election. This is also inherently built into the process.
In addition, ranked choice voting is difficult to audit. This too could take days and weeks. Which leads to the most glaring issue with ranked choice voting, transparency is virtually absent. In a traditional audit, an observer can see votes being counted. In ranked choice, who possibly could keep up!
In the financial world, if results aren’t transparent and auditable, they are not legit. In US elections this is not the case.
The proponents of ranked choice voting from the progressive left say this is a fine election process. In reality, it’s a nightmare with last night’s NYC election being another example.
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