and the #GOP has noticed:
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/05/nx-s1-4969563/ranked-choice-voting-bans
the GOP wins by disenfranchising voters, not by offering them more choices
therefore, the only way forward to #rankedchoicevoting in the #USA, which means stable #thirdparties and the ability to vote our conscience instead of dreary strategy, is to #vote for #democrats who support #RCV
What would the Illinois Secretary of State's Illinois State Flag Contest have looked like if it used #RankedChoiceVoting? Voters would have been able to choose their first choice, second choice, third, and so on. RCV requires that the winner must get >50% of the vote. Instead, the plurality voting system that was used resulted in a winner with only 43% of the vote—not a true majority. Learn more about ranked choice voting and its benefits at FairVoteIllinois.org/RCV
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Last month, the Chicago Board of Elections polled Chicago residents about ranked choice voting. 71% of respondents supported implementing RCV for Chicago elections! Did you know: We're lobbying City Council to put a binding ranked choice voting referendum on Chicago's ballot in April 2026? Let's get more choices, Chicago!
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Skokie just passed ranked choice voting this April. Hear Skokie resident and local advocate James Johnson explain some of its benefits!
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Photos from the Hands Off rally in Chicago yesterday. We spoke with politically engaged Chicagoans about how we're working to bring ranked choice voting to this city!
@vor @grumble209 @GutterPoetry @todymotmot @wendinoakland @profdc9 @zakalwe
but note:
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/05/nx-s1-4969563/ranked-choice-voting-bans
"Five states have banned #rankedChoiceVoting in the last two months, bringing the total number of #Republican-leaning states now prohibiting the voting method to 10"
we want 3rd parties
we want to vote our conscience rather than endless dreary strategy
we want #RCV
which we get how
by voting #democrat, and pushing them on the issue
rather than doing nothing but whining
@the5thColumnist @grumble209 @GutterPoetry @todymotmot @wendinoakland @profdc9 @zakalwe
it does
with the caveat #canada has #parliamentary #democracy, which lends some stability to 3rd parties, while the #usa #fptp nonparliamentary system means 3rd parties can never be stable
#australia meanwhile is laughing at both the usa and canada, since they have parliamentary *and* #rankedchoicevoting #rcv (what they call preferential voting)
“This is ridiculous”: Ranked choice voting is the greatest step forward in U.S. elections since the Australian ballot. (Google it.) But #RCV comes with a downside. You mark your first, second, third, etc. choices … and then wait to see who won. And wait. And wait. Will we learn the results of Tuesday’s Oakland CA mayor’s race … by Friday evening? Or will it take weeks longer? https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/oakland-mayor-race-when-results-20279186.php
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This Saturday, we will be spreading the word about ranked choice voting and our campaigns to get referendums on the ballot in Naperville and Chicago. Join us at the forefront of the fight for better elections! RSVP at FairVoteIllinois.org/events!
Who is behind FairVote Illinois? It's a group of volunteers from across the Prairie State advocating for better elections with ranked choice voting!
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As well as this, they tried to remove #RCV, like in the 1930's in #NewYork.
They had #ProportionalRepresentation & #RankedChoiceVoting for #municipal elections. Not only did it benefit black & brown people & poorer #community, but it also help elect a #Socialist & #Communist.
#NY ultimately removed RCV & #PR because #Communists & #Socialists were gaining seats.
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/new-york-proportional-representation-socialism
In fact I can even provide examples where #RankedChoiceVoting / #RCV isn't much a final solution and where direct oppositions from #Democrats would occur:
In #Maine there was #LisaSavage (The Independent #Progressive Candidate) against #MaxLinn ( The #Independent Candidate), #SaraGideon (The #Democrats Candidate) & #SusanCollins (The #Republicans Candidate).
BREAKING: Skokie, IL just became the THIRD municipality in Illinois to adopt #RankedChoiceVoting!
58.29% of voters voted to pass the binding referendum, which requires that future elections of Mayor, Clerk, and Trustees be done via RCV. Turnout exceeded 25%, high number for an off-year election!
Skokie voters will now have more choices and more power in future local elections. Congrats to Skokie, and thank you to all who helped get this on the ballot and passed!
We just finished up our Rank your Beer event! Participants ranked their favorites from a selection of four beers, and the ultimate winner (Blood Orange Blonde Ale) got majority support in just two rounds of tabulation with #RankedChoiceVoting.
We were joined by Vice President of Operations of the League of Women Voters of Chicago John Engle, who spoke about the long history of ranked choice voting in Irish elections and the great benefits it would bring to Chicago.
