Ranked Choice Voting
By Suzanne Kupelian, P.E.
(Proposition 131)
There is a referendum item on the November 5 Colorado ballot, which seeks to implement Ranked Choice Voting in the state of Colorado. This is absolutely a bad idea.
- First of all, it violates the concept of one person one vote.
- It is not transparent, but complicated and involved, and therefore invites even more voting fraud, in addition to all the other attempts we have already seen to perpetrate voting fraud.
- With one person/one vote, people talk to each other, listen to news, and have a good idea of what to expect in terms of election results. This complicated, obtuse “Ranked Choice” process makes it harder for voters to intuit whether the election results are consistent with expectations; this, in conjunction with media manipulation/“fake” news, cancel culture, etc., reduces the probability that voters will have the clarity required to challenge what might be a fraudulent election. This benefits democrats/socialists/communists, and other left wing constituencies.
- It is chaotic, non-intuitive, and not well understood, which confuses voters.
- It is costly to implement.
- No rationale is given for percentages used for second and third round voting allocations; they appear to be arbitrary (and probably biased toward Democrat candidates)
- It deprives voters of the opportunity to hold a primary election, which is an opportunity to vet the candidates, and assures that candidates running against each other are in fact running on different platforms. This allows voters an actual choice between two different candidates/ points of view, and not just between two individuals who may both have the same point of view.
We should not complicate the already litigious voting system that exists in our state, by introducing more chaos into the system. Ranked choice voting is a scheme devised by progressives to deceive and subvert the will of the voters, and reduce confidence in election results.
VOTE NO ON RANKED CHOICE VOTING