TYT Interviews – FairVote

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Malcolm Fleschner interviews Krist Novoselic & Rob Ritchie about FairVote’s mission.

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  2. You’d think, in Silicon Valley, ranked-choice voting machines would be competitively engineered + invested in aggressively. Not only is the ranked-choice concept long overdue, but we’ve known about vote-tampering with diebold machines + hacks + other such shenanigans since at least the 2000 election (see the old HBO Howard Dean documentary).

    And don’t get me started on voter-suppression tactics…

  3. Great interview, thanks so much. I’ve heard about ranked choice for years, but never really understood how it would work.

    I can see how it would encourage more people to vote, because it really does make votes count more. You can vote Third Party if you don’t like the two frontrunner choices, but you are still allowed to express your opinion about which of the two frontrunners you dislike more… Thereby avoiding the “I’d like to vote for Jane Doe but I don’t want to waste my vote, since she cannot win” dilemma, while simultaneously allowing me to express a preference for the lesser of two evils among the front-runners.

    Not perfect, but better than what we have now, for sure.

    And it could save a lot of money (instant run-offs, instead of needing to stage a whole new election) AND encourage more voter participation because there would be fewer election days needed. Hard enough to get people to the polls one day a year, let alone two or three days in a single year.

    Will be visiting the Fair Vote site to learn how we can help spread the word.

  4. Too bad ranked choice voting doesn’t fix the problems it claims to. It makes them better, sort of. But not resolved.

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