Ranked-choice voting, also known as instant-runoff voting, is a liberal-favored,[1] undemocratic voting system that has voters disapproving of candidates as much as selecting their favorite. The voting system enables the liberal media to veto a candidate in a multi-party race by inducing enough people to rank the good candidate last.
Ranked-choice voting is similar to election fraud in declaring the winner to be someone other than the person who received the most legitimate votes. Alaska and Maine use ranked-choice voting as of 2022, and Nevada adopted it by a ballot initiative for future elections.
Specifically, this process consists of counting the top picks on ballots will be counted for respective candidates initially; if no one gets a majority of the votes cast in the first round, the second choice picks for the last-place finisher are reallocated among the other candidates and this process is repeated until someone wins a majority.[2]
There are three major variants of this method:
- Optional Preferential, where a voter may rank as many (or as few) candidates as desired. For example, if there are five candidates for a position, the voter may rank all five, or only four, three, two, or even only one candidate.
- Partial Preferential, where a voter can only rank a maximum which is fewer than the number of candidates, but can still rank fewer. For example, a ballot may permit a voter to rank only his/her top three choices out of five. But the voter can rank three, only two, or even only one.
- Full Preferential, where a voter must rank all candidates shown, else the ballot is invalid.
The pretextual argument for ranked-choice voting is to overcome unfair bias against third-party candidates, which indirectly ensures a two-party system; by giving voters an option to rank their candidates in order of preference, for those who rank a third-party candidate as their top choice and either the Democrat or Republican nominee as their second pick, it becomes nearly guaranteed that their vote will go to the latter if no candidate initially garners a majority.
Maine has implemented RCV following the inability of several Democrat candidates to win elections in the state; rather than recruiting stronger candidates to gain certain voters who prefer left-leaning independent/third party candidates, the Democratic Party there instead chose to install a potentially unconstitutional[3] voting system.
One of the controversies in the 2020 Presidential election is the belief that the software within the Dominion voting machines was allocating votes using RCV, even though for Presidential elections RCV is not allowed except in Alaska and Maine (and in other states for primaries only).
See also
- Bruce Poliquin, Republican representative from Maine who lost re-election to Jared Golden in the 2018 Midterms due to RCV