Saturday, March 06, 2021

Ranked Choice Voting



Georgia could save a lot of money and improve voter participation in settling close elections by implementing ranked-choice voting, sometimes referred to as "automatic run-offs".

This would eliminate separate run-off elections which always are expensive and always attract many fewer voters.

I served as a Vote Review Panel member as well as a Vote Monitor in the 2020 election and the resulting run-off. I was very favorably impressed with the security, privacy, and verification methods provided by the Dominion Voting Systems machines, ballots, and processes. It was about as safe and trustworthy an election as is possible, despite the many lies promoted with virtually no pretense of corroborative evidence by the defeated former president sulking now down in Florida.  Dominion has the capability of printing ranked choice ballots that work with its system. 

Rome City Commission should consider using the ranked system in its multi-member commission districts and its Board of Education races. 

The Dominion brochure can be found at the following webpage. You will need to scroll down to the ranked choice section and click on the appropriate download.

https://www.dominionvoting.com/optional-solutions/


Hat-tip to Mike Bock whose post at daytonos prompted me to investigate whether our new Dominion voting system would allow ranked-choice voting. I am not sure whether legislation at the state level would be necessary or if the City of Rome has the power to institute this reform on our own.

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