https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jan/29/ranked-choice-voting-backed-by-liberal-megadonors-/New ballot setup backed by liberal megadonors is changing the outcomes of American elections
Georgia state Sen. Randy Robertson, R-Cataula, holds up a ranked choice voting ballot during a Senate Ethics Committee hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, at the state capitol in Atlanta.By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times - Monday, January 29, 2024
Ranked-choice voting, which helped Democratic candidates win Republican-leaning House seats in Alaska and Maine, is expanding in the U.S. despite criticism that it disenfranchises voters and can elect candidates who are not favored by the majority of the electorate.
The U.S. Virgin Islands will use ranked-choice voting for the first time in a Republican presidential nominating contest on Feb. 8.
Advocates say ranked-choice voting is a nonpartisan election reform that gives voters more choices and leads to better, more issues-focused campaigns and fairer outcomes.
Critics say it’s a scheme backed by Democratic megadonor George Soros and other wealthy liberals. They say the method is confusing and complicated, leads to the disqualification of thousands of ballots and allows marginal candidates to prevail over the choices of the majority of voters.
Ranked-choice voting requires voters to pick their favorite candidate on the ballot and rank their preferences out of the remainder of the listed candidates.
If no candidate wins more than 50% of the vote, election officials retabulate the results by first eliminating the candidate with the fewest votes.
For voters whose first choice is knocked out, their second-choice selection is counted in the retabulation.
The process repeats until a candidate wins more than half the vote.
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