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Equal Vote Coalition

@TheEqualVote

May 12 • 10 tweets • 5 min read Twitter logo

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TEN municipalities in Utah just repealed #RankedChoiceVoting (RCV).

Utah is currently running a pilot program that allows cities to opt-in to using RCV. In 2021, 23 wanted to use RCV, and 21 did so. For the Nov 2023 elections, only 11 of those will use RCV.

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10 cities decided not to use RCV again:
Bluffdale
Cottonwood Heights
Draper
Elk Ridge
Moab
Newton
Nibley
River Heights
Sandy
Springville

Goshen and Riverton didn't have enough candidates to need RCV before and are now quitting the pilot. Kearns is the only new RCV city.

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These repeals are indicative of a trending backlash against Ranked Choice Voting, from voters to election officials. RCV is often sold as a simple, cheap upgrade to our current Choose One Voting that solves many of its ills. However...

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..we've known for years now that RCV does not deliver on these promises. In Sandy, Utah the cost of implementing RCV was "grossly underestimated". Many voters didn't understand it, turnout decreased, and a majority of voters disliked the system.

deseret.com/2023/1/9/23518…

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In Moab, there was a "monotonicity failure" in a multi-winner election where some voters had their votes actually backfire. Ranked Choice advocates long dismissed this pathology as an edge-case scenario that won't happen in real-world elections...

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...but we now have evidence of at least 3 monotonicity failures distorting voter intent in public elections:
Burlington, VT, 2009
Alaska, Aug 2022
Moab, UT, 2021

It also happened 3 times at a recent GOP convention in Utah.

litarvan.substack.com/p/the-curious-…

litarvan.substack.com/p/hands-up-rep…

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@UtahApproves

Luckily, other alternative voting methods ARE accurate, secure, and easy to administer.

@UtahApproves has been working tirelessly in Utah promoting #ApprovalVoting, and all 29 Utah County Clerks are on board.

utahapproves.org/approval-votin…

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The Utah Association of Counties has rallied against RCV, publishing their "Analysis from the Perspective of the Elected Officials who Administer Elections". In short, administering RCV has been a huge pain, and they prefer Approval Voting.

le.utah.gov/interim/2021/p…

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We endorse Approval Voting as a great step forward. Our champion proposal, though, is #STARVoting.

STAR Voting was specifically invented to deliver on the promises of Ranked Choice Voting while being simpler, more expressive, and less expensive.

starvoting.org

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@UtahApproves

If you want learn more and get involved in with Utah Approves and the Utah Equal Vote chapter, sign up to volunteer at equal.vote/join and be sure to follow @UtahApproves!

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