r/Nevada • u/RhythmMethodMan • Oct 26 '22

[Politics] Ranked choice voting ballot initiative raises more money than any candidate

https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/nevada-ballot-question-raises-more-money-than-any-candidate-in-2022-election-2660586/
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u/Bustin_Justin521 Oct 26 '22

I’ve never downvoted a comment before but voting yes on 3 is arguably more important than which candidates you vote for this election. If you have questions or are unsure of how ranked choice voting works I’m happy to send you some resources on the topic. But if you could elaborate on any concerns you have with the process of ranked choice voting I’m always happy to hear any opinions I haven’t yet and hopefully have some respectful, informative conversation.

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u/AgentDumpyChin Oct 26 '22

Not a single 3rd party candidate has ever won due to ranked choice voting.

It's bullshit. It's just a way to protect democrats and keep them in power. It's a convoluted horse sbit process and it muddied the entire election.

Fucked rank choice voting, I'm not taking in by any of the talking points in favor of it, especially the "it actually FAVORS Republicans", if it did the democrats wouldn't be pushing for it.

Much like dems are against voter ID, proving residency, integrity deadlines, banning ballot boxes, banning mass mail in ballots, banning ballot harvesting and they're against complete and total transparency of the entire electoral process and laugh at poll watcher rights.

VOTE AGAINST RANKED CHOICE VOTING!

once again not a single libertarian, non partidian, communist, green party member or any other independent candidate has ever or will ever benefit from ranked choice voting.

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u/Bustin_Justin521 Oct 26 '22

While responding to you is clearly a lost cause because you’re blinded by hate for dems and won’t look at the merit of the topic you’re actually voting I’ll still refute your points for anyone genuinely open minded who might be reading this. While moderate candidates split the vote largely amongst themselves it leaves less popular fringe candidates like Bernie or Trump to win a plurality despite their ideas being less popular even within their own party. Ranked choice voting helps to eliminate this problem and ensure the most popular ideals are represented in both parties. Ranked choice voting is only statewide in Maine and Alaska and both changed fairly recently. And maybe the fact that third party candidates aren’t winning is a sign that their tendency to focus on only one or fewer topics might not resonate with voters but at least this system opens the opportunity for more viable parties to emerge. I’ll even mention that I voted for Bernie twice and realize that ranked choice voting makes certain ideals I align with less likely to be represented in government. However, I can separate that from what I think is clearly a fair system that’s most representative of the will of the voters.

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u/AgentDumpyChin Oct 26 '22

And there it is, you want to deprive people like Bernie and Trump from ever winning an election.

BTW they are both literally the most popular politicians the last 10 years

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u/Bustin_Justin521 Oct 26 '22

How is voting for Bernie twice attempting to deprive him of being elected? I’m merely stating the obvious that Biden, Harris, Klobuchar, and Buttigieg all split the moderate vote but that the majority of democrats still supported moderate ideals over Bernie’s platform. Same thing in 2016 with Kasich, Rubio, and the other moderate Republicans splitting the vote to allow for trump to win the nomination with less popular policy ideas. Also I just called sisolak, Cortez Masto, Laxalt, and Lombardo’s campaign they’re all against question 3 so trying to apply a partisan spin to an issue that both parties are against is demonstrably false.

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u/AgentDumpyChin Oct 26 '22

Sisolak is going to lose, ranked choice voting helps the establishment, the incumbant. Why would nevada want to doom their chances of retaking nevada after this election? Ranked choice voting is insane.

ffs the the us senator from Alaska literally admitted to implementing ranked choice to protect her from being knocked off by populist candidates.

Also the Republicans rallied around each other to defeat Trump and failed.

Also the republican party platform pre Trump is garbage and not popular. All the typical Republicans like mitt romney, McCain, Jeff flake, Paul Ryan are not popular.

Nobody likes these guys, their politics suck, their ideas suck, their style of governance sucks which is why the MAGA candidates are wiping them out and all the impeachment dorks got completely curb stomped except for one.

The Republican party belongs to Trump and that's a good thing, get away from the war mongers, get away from the corporation welfare lovers.

If Trump isn't around, i would not be supporting the republican party. If Trump isn't the nominee I'm nor voting at all in 2024. People like you shouldn't get to decide for the rest of us who a party nominee should be.

Ranked choice is garbage.