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Across America on Election Night, voters mostly rejected ranked-choice voting measures
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coloradopolitics.com, National

Across America on Election Night, voters mostly rejected ranked-choice voting measures

By Kaelan Deese | Washington Examiner, via Colorado Politics Voters across the country weighed in on ranked choice voting ballot initiatives Tuesday, with a vast majority rejecting the system amid an intensifying debate over its effects on elections. RCV, which allows voters to rank candidates by preference rather than selecting only one, has faced mounting opposition at both state and local levels. This year’s election results featured a mixed outcome, with state-level ballot measures predominantly failing but some cities voting to adopt or maintain RCV. READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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Panel at Colorado Mesa debates merits, concerns with Prop. 131, the ranked-choice voting measure
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State

Panel at Colorado Mesa debates merits, concerns with Prop. 131, the ranked-choice voting measure

By Jen Schumann | Contributor, Rocky Mountain Voice Imagine if your vote could genuinely reflect your voice. Some argue Proposition 131, the ranked-choice voting measure, can do just that. During a Grand Junction event hosted by Restore the Balance and Colorado Mesa University, both proponents and opponents of the measure debated the proposition. Panelists tackled tough questions about ranked-choice voting's potential to enhance democracy, versus the risk of confusion at the polls. Following is some of the key discussion between the panel, from Phil Izon, a prominent figure in Alaska’s efforts to repeal ranked-choice voting, to Kent Thiry, who heads up the support side of the Colorado proposition. From left, Josh Daniels, Sheila Reiner, Dr. Tim Casey, Kent Thiry, and Maeve Suns...
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Group opposed to ranked-choice voting warns it will make elections less secure
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Group opposed to ranked-choice voting warns it will make elections less secure

By Brady Knox | Colorado Politics, via Washington Examiner An anti-ranked choice voting group warned that ballot initiatives in favor of the practice would make elections less secure. Eight states and the District of Columbia will have ballot initiatives related to ranked choice voting. RCV is a method of voting where voters can vote for multiple candidates in order of preference. While activists praise the method as being more fair and allowing voters' voices to be better heard, opponents making up the Stop RCV Coalition, such as Honest Elections Project Executive Director Jason Snead, argue that the process serves only to confuse voters. "Ranked choice voting is a convoluted scheme that confuses voters," he said. "Across the country, millions of citizens...
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Barry & O’Reilly: Vote ‘NO’ on Prop. 131 and say you don’t want ranked-choice voting
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice, State

Barry & O’Reilly: Vote ‘NO’ on Prop. 131 and say you don’t want ranked-choice voting

By James Barry and Chuck O'Reilly | Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice With the passage of Proposition 131, the ranked-choice voting measure you may have heard about, petitions are the only way candidates will able to qualify for the ballot. Only candidates with big money supporting them will be able to pay canvassers enough money to stand in front of stores to get a sufficient number of voters to sign each candidate’s petition.  That’s right! Only candidates with enough money supporting them will be able to pay canvassers. All candidates will need large amount of money to pay their way onto the ballot.  As a result, those candidates are beholding to those donors. Why? Gone are the days when we gathered with our neighbors to discuss candidates at our caucuses and...
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Overbeck: Ranked-choice (Prop. 131) is the scam that can erase your vote 
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice, State

Overbeck: Ranked-choice (Prop. 131) is the scam that can erase your vote 

By Joy Overbeck  | Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Ranked-choice voting (RCV), Proposition 131 on Colorado’s November ballot, is such a drastic perversion of our nation’s 247-year election standard of one person/one vote that voting for it risks actually losing your vote. Rather than an improvement in election bi-partisanship and choice -- its boosters are spending more than $8 million to convince voters, in practice, the candidates that get the most votes can lose, and those with the fewest votes may come out the winners. And your vote can even be trashed, thrown out, if you don’t follow the complicated directions.  This initiative would replace party primary ballots with "jungle" primaries for governor, treasurer, attorney general, secretary of state, state board of e...
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Pro-abortion, ranked choice groups rake in big bucks for November elections
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coloradopolitics.com, State

Pro-abortion, ranked choice groups rake in big bucks for November elections

By Marianne Goodland | Colorado Politics With five weeks to go until Election Day, the spending is ramping up for committees fighting for people's vote. And some interesting contributors have surfaced. Not surprisingly — and given the onslaught of television ads — Proposition 131, which deals with ranked choice voting, has brought in the biggest dollars. The measure would set up ranked choice voting and open primaries for Colorado elections. While both major political parties oppose the measure, it has been endorsed by Gov. Jared Polis, the League of Women Voters, and on Tuesday, by U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper. READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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Colorado voters to decide on ranked-choice voting system, all-candidate primaries
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coloradopolitics.com, State

Colorado voters to decide on ranked-choice voting system, all-candidate primaries

By Marissa Ventrelli | Colorado Politics Secretary of State also approves Peace Officer Training and Support Fund for November ballot. Colorado voters will be asked to consider a ranked-choice voting system this November, which would change both the primary and general election for both state and federal races. The Secretary of State's Office announced this week that Proposition 310 does qualify for the November ballot. If approved, the ballot measure would create what is known as all-candidate primaries and switch the general election process to a ranked-choice system.  If approved, the measure is aimed to go into effect in 2026 when primary elections would likely do away with partisan races, and would instead push the top four candidates who get the highest number of votes to...
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Cuccinelli: Maine shows just what’s wrong with ranked-choice voting
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Commentary, National, TownHall.com

Cuccinelli: Maine shows just what’s wrong with ranked-choice voting

By Ken Cuccinelli  | Commentary, Townhall.com Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has qualified for the Maine Presidential ballot in November and in doing so shows just how fraudulent claims in favor of Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) really are. Supporters of RCV falsely promise it will reduce toxic partisanship, increase compromise, and eliminate extremism from our elections, but in reality the costly, confusing, and complex voting practice has been an unmitigated disaster wherever implemented.  RCV requires a voter to rank each candidate on the basis of ‘least bad’ by assigning a numerical designation to the candidate the voter favors most to the candidate the voter favors least. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of first-choice votes in the first round of voting, the l...
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