Last session, the legislature overwhelmingly voted down Ranked Choice Voting (H179 - Sponsored by Rep. Hawkins of the House, and Senator Zuiderveld in the Senate). The house voted in favor of prohibiting it in Idaho 56-12-2. The only Republicans who did NOT vote to prohibit it were Reps Dan Garner, Jack Nelsen, and Dustin Manwaring. The Senate passed the prohibition 28-7 purely down party lines.

Since then, leftist groups decided they were going to force the issue and bring forth a ballot initiative to the voters. Of course, ballot initiatives come with a lot of lies and deceit to take horrible ideas and make them sound wonderful. Ballot initiatives have been used historically to move entire states to the left. If you don't believe that, ask California.

We are now seeing left-leaning "Republicans" (aka - establishment, uniparty RINOs) get behind the idea as well. What are they scared of?

Here is ranked-choice voting in a simple analogy that we found posted somewhere. The author is unknown to us:

STALIN WOULD DEFEAT LINCOLN IN RANKED CHOICE VOTING

Ranked Choice Voting is how dark money and mob rule subvert Democracy and defeat “values voters”. The ranked choice system turns red states purple, then purple states blue. If you doubt this, simply look where RCV is active. It is how Alaska’s house seat went from a Republican (R-Don Young) to far left extremist and activist (D-Mary Peltola) in one election cycle. To see how this works read on.

Abe Lincoln, Stalin and Mao are running for office. No one has heard of Mao but everyone knows Lincoln and Stalin. Because Lincoln voters are conservative or “values voters” they would never rank Stalin or Mao as their 2nd candidate as neither hold their values. As there is little difference between Mao and Stalin their voters each rank the other candidate as their 2nd choice.

In the election, Lincoln gets 49% of the vote. This does not meet the threshold (50%) required for a clear majority win in Ranked Choice Voting. Consequently, the election goes to an immediate machine run-off or “ranked choice” vote where Stalin receives 27% of the vote while Mao only 24%. Because Stalin and Mao voters ranked each others candidates 2nd, Stalin wins the election as his number of votes, combined with Mao voters’ 2nd choice, surpasses the 50% threshold required to win.

Stalin wins despite Lincoln getting more votes.

Add spoiler candidates for Lincoln and his percentage is diluted further. RCV’s evil genius lay in its ability to deny voters a clear choice while promising less divisiveness! Would a Lincoln voter agree? RCV intentionally targets conservative tendencies to split votes while allowing far-left candidates to gang up on an unsuspecting electorate.

Please do not sign pledges for the Ranked Choice Scam. And do not fall for the Open / Jungle Primary arguments.

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