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Jason Snead: The Ranked-Choice Voting Virus Spreads To Utah
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Jason Snead: The Ranked-Choice Voting Virus Spreads To Utah

Jason Snead: The Ranked-Choice Voting Virus Spreads To Utah

"A guinea pig.” That is what Sandy, Utah Mayor Monica Zoltanski said that “ranked-choice voting” (RCV) made of her hometown. The town opted into Utah’s controversial RCV pilot program, but the experiment has not gone well. The cost-saving promised by proponents never materialized, but the real alarm bells should have sounded when the experiment produced voter confusion and voter disengagement.Yet instead of ending this failed pilot program, Utah legislators are now considering a bill to expand ranked-choice voting to primary elections for state and federal office.

Utah Considers Ranked-Choice Voting Despite Disastrous Record
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Utah Considers Ranked-Choice Voting Despite Disastrous Record

Utah Considers Ranked-Choice Voting Despite Disastrous Record

Despite disastrous outcomes in Alaska, Maine, and multiple U.S. municipalities due to ranked-choice voting, Utah is considering legislation to follow their steps.

Ranked Choice Voting is a REAL Threat to Fair Elections
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Ranked Choice Voting is a REAL Threat to Fair Elections

Ranked Choice Voting is a REAL Threat to Fair Elections

Ranked Choice Voting is an actual threat to democracy. Our partners at the Honest Election Project have produced a fact sheet summarizing the real problems with ranked choice voting. Consider the following:

NAACP head slams ranked choice voting, urges overhaul of board
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NAACP head slams ranked choice voting, urges overhaul of board

NAACP head slams ranked choice voting, urges overhaul of board

The head of the NAACP in New York slammed the new ranked-choice voting system as “voter suppression” while calling for an overhaul of the bumbling New York City Board of Elections.“Ranked choice voting is not beneficial to minorities. It’s voter suppression,” Hazel Dukes, president of the NYS chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said Thursday in a phone interview.

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