Some Republicans have been defensive that the party has a strong anti-democratic bent. But the state GOP convention embraced it, writes columnist Danny Westneat.
So why isn't the DNC forming a national push for Ranked Choice voting? Stopping the Republicans is bigger then preserving the democratic party.
Joe biden needs backup on the debate stage. We need more chances to defeat the republicans. We need more then two viable political parties.
All that is possible with electoral reform. We don't actually need to wait for federal reform. How we vote is controlled at the state level. This means all those blue states can push through this much needed reform with little Republican resistance.
We deserve the *freedom * to vote for someone who best represents us, secure in the knowledge that our vote will still be counted even if our preference didn't won. We deserve to be free of the spoiler effect.
The only thing standing in our way in blue states is the democratic party. Don't they care about beating the Republicans more then being in power?
The DNC doesn't care about beating the GOP, they care about maintaining their donors. Given that third parties have more popular policies, they would lose power by implementing ranked choice voting.
In states where RCV has been gaining momentum, it's because voters have demanded it. A given candidate is more electable if they support RCV, even though it makes the party worse off long term.
Ranked choice and similar electoral systems are a direct threat to the monopoly on power held by the Dems and the GOPers- which is why we don't have some sort of a ranked choice balloting system instead of first past the post.