DEFEATED: Jungle Primaries & Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) Ballot Initiative: A Race to the Bottom ~ Cliff's Notes Version
Open/Jungle Primaries & RCV threaten Idaho’s conservative voices. These are leftist-favored tactics to turn Idaho blue. PLEASE SHARE! Updated 11/06/24.
🚫 DEFEAT PROPOSITION 1 👎 VOTE NO!
Do not be fooled by this leftist Trojan Horse’s patootie of a proposition! VOTE NO on Proposition 1 — misleadingly labeled “Idaho Open Primaries Act”.
Top-Four/Jungle Primaries + Ranked Choice Voting = Idaho Elections Disaster
Proposition 1 = 2 Bad Ideas in 1.
Top-Four / Jungle Primaries (falsely termed “open primaries”). PARTIES WOULD BE IRRELEVANT! In a “Jungle Primary” anyone can identify as anything — party doesn’t matter!
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV). A complicated, expensive, computerized disenfranchisement scheme where your vote may be thrown out, voters become demoralized, and the best candidates rarely win!
Full text of the “Idaho Open Primaries Act” ballot initiative (PDF, from Idaho Secretary of State website)
🔐 Secure Idaho Elections website: https://www.secureidahoelections.org/
👎 VOTE NO on Idaho's Proposition 1
Learn more about Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) and Jungle (Top 4) Primaries: https://eolson47.substack.com/p/jungle-primaries-and-ranked-choice
RANKED CHOICE VOTING IN A NUTSHELL
Ranked Choice Voting is Rigged Choice Voting!
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) — more appropriately nicknamed Rigged Choice Voting — was already prohibited by law in Idaho via House Bill 179, but leftist backed group Reclaim Idaho is trying to overturn voter choice with a ballot initiative that eventually will destroy Idaho’s primary and general elections. (In Idaho, the primary elections often determine the general election winners, so open primaries are particularly harmful.)
The Reclaim Idaho ballot initiative proposes to completely restructure Idaho’s election system in three main ways:
Require all primaries to use a wide-open “top-four” scheme technically termed a “jungle” primary. The current partisan primary, where Republican voters select the Republican nominee, would be abolished. Replacing it would be a “top four” primary, where all candidates are on the ballot, and voters can choose any one of them. The top four vote-getters advance to the general election, regardless of party affiliation (or lack thereof).
Implement Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) in our general elections. The general election would be conducted via an instant runoff, also known as ranked choice voting. In this system, voters rank candidates by order of preference, and votes are counted in multiple rounds. If nobody receives an outright majority, the lowest vote-getter is eliminated. This process — which requires computer intervention (what could go wrong?) and eliminates voted ballots — continues until one candidate has a majority. That candidate is then declared the winner.
Cost Idaho Taxpayers up to $40 million by requiring new voting machines and extensive voter education while putting an undue burden on county elections (especially those that span counties such as state Senators and Representatives).
Alaska already tried RCV, which failed to achieve anything good for the state. In some cases, the “winner” of a race (e.g., Murkowski over Trump-backed Tshibaka) was NOT the first choice of most voters. The video explains how this happens. Other locales also have tried RCV, again with regrettable results. Many, including Alaska, are trying to repeal or have abandoned RCV.
Watch these Videos about how RCV Works (or Doesn’t!)…
🦨 Leftist-Backed Jungle Primaries & RCV Stink 🦨
They are BAD FOR IDAHO!
DO NOT VOTE FOR BAD IDEAS!
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