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Ranked Choice Voting loses in Pierce County

By m3047
Thu Nov 12, 2009 at 11:46:48 AM PST
Section: Diary Topic: Election news/info

Unnoticed by most people (and largely unremarked on at Washblog) Pierce County, which had adopted Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) in 2006, has apparently repealed it in this election.

This was Proposed Charter Amendment No. 3 on the ballot.

The campaign was allied (at least on the signs which drew my attention to the matter) with the campaigns against amendments #1 and #2, under the general slogan of "No Rigging the System". Amendments #1 and #2 failed; only Amendment #3 passed.

The (my new -- FWM) local 29th LD Democratic Party organization took no position on the issue. The County Democratic Party organization endorsed a yes vote on #3 (and no votes on #1 and #2).

Why? Local unofficial gossip appeared to center on discontent with the ahherrrmmm... quality, I suppose one could say... of certain officeholders elected under the system. While one could argue that there were other contributing factors, people were looking for something to blame rather than their own inattentiveness and that of the media.

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a clarification
The campaigns against all three were allied under the slogan "No Rigging the System".

by m3047 on Thu Nov 12, 2009 at 11:53:33 AM PST

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  • Inattention? by ivan, 11/15/2009 07:07:17 AM PST (none / 0)
For giving more openings to outsiders
--fusion voting is much more effective than IRV, at least judging by the successes of New York's Working Families Party.

by eridani on Sun Nov 15, 2009 at 11:25:39 PM PST

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How about...

...actually-having-a-message-and-good-candidates voting?

How about that?

by dlaw on Thu Nov 19, 2009 at 06:13:25 PM PST

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