Take Back Elections Looks at Various Voting Methods (Meeting #2)

Meeting #2

Take Back Elections is examining the best voting methods to provide more fairness in our elections. We have been studying and examining these following:

There are other possible methods. We feel any method MUST be able to be hand-countable! Thus our second meeting was a very brief over-view of these popular methods, with a focus on a hand-count demonstration.

We focused on Ranked Choice Voting in this meeting with an eye to the ability to hand-count. We easily found the difficulty and challenge of counting RCV in a 20-ballot, multi-race demonstration count. We point out that RCV cannot be hand-counted at the poll or precinct levels because if there is no way to know if there is a 51% clear winner in the first choice run-off unless you have all the ballots together and counted for a given race. Even in local races, ballots could never be hand-counted at a poll for a final hand tally, per poll, before the ballots leave any poll. This is a security feature, an onsite poll hand-count.

There will be another group meeting before a final recommendation for a specific method of voting is decided.

Please give us your comments and ideas below the blog! Sign up for our working groups! Donate, if you can, for our long-term work and see if you live in a ballot initiative state and sign up to help us out in that or another state on the state teams page!

Many thanks!!!!

Monta Welch

Take Back Elections.org

https://takebackelections.org/conference-call-videos/

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