And so should you!



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Hi Friend,



A certain former Republican office-holder sided with Nevada Democrats
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choice voting on Saturday, during a campaign rally in Anchorage, Alaska.



That sentence alone is a reminder that Alaska's nonpartisan primary + ranked
choice voting system — a similar one may be coming to Nevada soon, if voters
there approve it — is about the interests of all voters, not about advancing
the interests of a particular political party or politician.



While we're on the topic, though... here are a few reminders of how
Republicans like ranked choice voting:





Virginia
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In Virginia's 8th, 10th, and 11th congressional districts, Republicans select
their nominees by RCV.Here's what the 11th district GOP chairman had to say
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about it this year: “I think it’s a really good way of, A, having consensus
and getting past that 50% mark, and B, just making it more of a party that’s
unified behind a candidate because everyone had a voice in that candidate. …
When you know that you need to have someone else’s supporters to keep you as
their No. 2, a lot of the nastiness kind of goes away.”

P.S., remember that Glenn Youngkin won the first round of gubernatorial
balloting with just 33% last year — the sort of plurality result that would
advance a nominee in a status-quo election and shut 67% of participating voters
out. The state GOP’s model guaranteed a majority winner (Youngkin, with 55%
instead of 33%, after the instant runoffs
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P.P.S., three <[link removed]>
state GOP parties in all used RCV in statewide contests and several
congressional contests run by the party in 2020-22.





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Utah
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More than 20 municipalities in Republican-dominated Utah use ranked choice
voting for local elections.A poll of voters there found that
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:86% of RCV voters were satisfied with their experience; 81% of them reported
that RCV was easy to use; 90% of them reported that RCV instructions were
clear; and 63% of them reported that they liked using RCV.


 


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Wisconsin
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Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) called
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the bipartisan introduction of a ranked choice voting bill in Wisconsin "not
just a good place to start,but a way for our state to revitalize its rich
history in political innovation."





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And a bonus bullet point!

* Overseas
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military voters already use RCV ballots for elections in Alabama, Arkansas,
Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina.
As Take Back Action's John Pudner wrote
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in Newsweek, Republican voters would benefit from Alaska-style election reform
— since a majority of them in the primaries this year for Senate in Ohio and
Pennsylvania, as well as the Nebraska governor's race (among others), did not
choose the winning nominee.Read more from our friends at FairVote about this
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which ranked choice voting would solve.


Best,

Chris
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Chris Deaton
Senior Communications Director
Unite America

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