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If NYC Elects A Far-Left Socialist, Blame Ranked-Choice Voting
« on: June 17, 2025, 11:18:31 am »
If NYC Elects A Far-Left Socialist, Blame Ranked-Choice Voting

By: Madeline Malisa
June 17, 2025

New York City could sleepwalk its way into electing a socialist mayor, thanks to ranked-choice voting.

New York City — the city that never sleeps — may be two weeks away from sleepwalking its way into advancing an open socialist in the mayoral Democrat primary. Voters would have ranked-choice voting to thank for the assist.

Zohran Mamdani, a New York state assembly member and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has promised everything from a rent freeze, free bus fare, and government-owned grocery stores. His socialist utopia would put the Empire State exodus on overdrive as productive taxpayers flee to lower-tax states.

Although the Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez-endorsed candidate would be a fringe long shot in most elections around the country, he has a real shot at winning in NYC because giving far-left outliers viability is a feature — not a bug — of ranked-choice voting.

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https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/17/if-nyc-elects-a-far-left-socialist-blame-ranked-choice-voting/
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Re: If NYC Elects A Far-Left Socialist, Blame Ranked-Choice Voting
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2025, 11:19:31 am »
I blame mental illness and an affinity for fascism.
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Re: If NYC Elects A Far-Left Socialist, Blame Ranked-Choice Voting
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2025, 06:26:21 pm »
Pshaw...

This is what "ranked choice voting" IS FOR:
- to make winners out of losers.
- to deprive the candidate who received the plurality of votes from office.
- to make it considerably more difficult for a single conservative candidate to win against an entire field full of leftists.
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Re: If NYC Elects A Far-Left Socialist, Blame Ranked-Choice Voting
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2025, 07:05:08 pm »
So, the choice for New York boils down to a communist or a sexual predator?  And sad to say, the Republicans are not in the running?  Will New York, California or Illinois ever learn that when things are really bad, you do not go back to the same political party and ask for a 2nd plate of sh*t!
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Re: If NYC Elects A Far-Left Socialist, Blame Ranked-Choice Voting
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2025, 07:06:39 pm »
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Re: If NYC Elects A Far-Left Socialist, Blame Ranked-Choice Voting
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2025, 07:24:07 pm »
Saw him and AOC on a parade float. AOC is getting very thick.  Most PR's grow out of their genes.
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