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Equal Vote Coalition
@TheEqualVote
Leveling the playing field, fighting for equality in the vote, and giving people the info they need to make informed choices about voting reform. #StarVoting
May 12, 2023 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
TEN municipalities in Utah just repealed #RankedChoiceVoting (RCV).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.

1/10 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.

2/10
Jan 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Choose-One voting has one thing going for it - It's transparent, so results are easy to tally and audit. This forms the foundation for a government of and by the people.

As we fight to upgrade our voting method we remain committed to voting methods that uphold that standard.
🧵 #StarVoting, #RankedRobin, and #ApprovalVoting can all be tallied with addition. Stacks of ballots can be tallied at the local level as they come in, and our current protocols for chain-of-custody, partial hand counts, or risk-limiting-audits can all continue as before.
Jan 6, 2023 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
After 11 failed attempts to elect a #SpeakerOfTheHouse, it's clear that a true majority winner does not exist. That said, a better voting method could end the stalemate and find a representative, majority preferred winner. Let's review 2 options: #RankedChoice and #STARVoting.
🧵 A common claim about Ranked Choice Voting (#RCV) is that it always elects majority winners. This claim is objectively false. No voting method can guarantee a majority in an election with more than 2 candidates because a true majority may not always exist.
Dec 30, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
BREAKING NEWS: We have long taken a firm stance that RCV does not pass our minimum bar for fair, secure, and viable election reform - for a number of reasons - but when catastrophic fails like this happen, we are as dismayed as anyone. @sfchronicle bit.ly/rcv-botch
🧵 San Francisco Chronicle art... RCV is uniquely complex and uniquely prone to both voter errors and counting errors like this one, discovered by a 3rd party long after the election results were certified in Alameda County, CA. This kind of catastrophic error undermines the voting reform movement in general. In some Ranked Choice Votin...