#Virginia #RankedChoiceVoting #RCV
All VA peeps, RCV is up for committee discussion TOMORROW.
You can submit comments here: hodspeak.house.virginia.gov/su…
choose HB965 - Price
My comment:
Ranked Choice Voting should be adopted. It provides the mechanism to allow a true majority to elect our leaders. Run-off elections are expensive, time consuming and significantly under represent the voting public.
Rarely do we find something that is definitively better at it's purpose that's also simpler and cheaper. And when the conditions aren't met, i.e. just two candidates, functions like the status quo.
Everyone has
... Show more...#Virginia #RankedChoiceVoting #RCV
All VA peeps, RCV is up for committee discussion TOMORROW.
You can submit comments here: hodspeak.house.virginia.gov/su…
choose HB965 - Price
My comment:
Ranked Choice Voting should be adopted. It provides the mechanism to allow a true majority to elect our leaders. Run-off elections are expensive, time consuming and significantly under represent the voting public.
Rarely do we find something that is definitively better at it's purpose that's also simpler and cheaper. And when the conditions aren't met, i.e. just two candidates, functions like the status quo.
Everyone has done ranked choice voting in their lives. "If they have a chicken salad get that, but if not get me a burger".
On top of all that, it encourages candidates to reach outside of their party or base. Being 70% of the voters 2nd choice easily wins a closely divided election.
And even better, gives independent candidates a real shot at winning allowing voters to reject both major parties.
RCV is really a win win win scenario. It makes a majority of people have voted for the winner, without the cost and negative properties of run-off elections. We need the public to be invested in it's elected leadership, and the current two party (in all but name) oligarchy system is falling apart.
Please support Ranked Choice Voting.
