Ranked Choice Voting


Educate Yourself on The Dangers of Ranked Choice Voting!

14 Ranked Choice Voting System Settings that Allow 276,480 Different Ways of Counting Your Votes!!!😱

Hum, why do they have a 9-digit decimal precision setting to count our vote? So, they can actually DISCOUNT our ONE vote!😱😱😱

Source: The voting system settings page is part of Santa Clara County’s Citizens Advisory Commission on Election (CACE)’s May 8th 2023 Agenda Package

Official Hearing Highlights and Analysis on Ranked Choice Voting

Alameda County

Alameda Ranked-Choice Voting Special Hearing 1-5-2023 Highlights

Below are some of the great analysis from Match Analysis. They did a deep dive into every aspect of 2022 Oakland Mayoral election to provide real facts on what really happened using ranked-choice voting:

2022 Ranked Choice Voting Mayoral Election Error rate
Source: Match Analysis on twitter
ranked choice bullet voting
Source: Match Analysis on twitter

City of Sunnyvale

Sunnyvale City Council 4/26/2022 meeting minutes – Motion to remove Ranked-Choice Voting provision

Sunnyvale tried it. They tested out Ranked-Choice voting on Feb 8, 2022 to appoint an interim councilmember following the resignation of City council Mason Fong. They discovered how easily Ranked Choice Voting can be manipulated and how error prone this method is. The City councils quickly made an U-Turn.

Sunnyvale city council 4-26-2022 meeting minutes page 1
Sunnyvale city council 4-26-2022 meeting minutes page 10
Sunnyvale city council 4-26-2022 meeting minutes page 11

Santa Clara County

Cautionary tale: Santa Clara County voters passed Measure F in 1998, BEFORE there is even a way to process Ranked Choice Voting ballots and WITHOUT a BASIC understanding of how it actually works. The measure amended Santa Clara County charter and gave Board of Supervisors unilateral authority to use instant-runoff aka Ranked Choice Voting at will !

In 2023, California State Legislatures passed AB1227 to further PRESSURE Santa Clara County to implement Ranked Choice Voting!

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1227

Related Articles

https://reason.com/2024/11/06/ranked-choice-voting-initiatives-massively-fail/

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/06/new-york-ranked-choice-voting-498221

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/06/new-yorks-ranked-choice-voting-is-a-mistake/

University of Cincinnati Law Review on Ranked-Choice Voting

Ranked-Choice Voting: A Disaster in Disguise by The Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA)