Monday, July 08, 2019

City Hall doubles down on dumb RCV


Since it's often hard to find even one good candidate to vote for in local elections, providing city voters with ten choices is like an Onion parody of the Ranked Choice Voting system.

I've blogged about this bogus reform dozens of times (click on "Ranked Choice Voting" below). 

Instead of repeating myself with another argument against this delusional good government bullshit, here's a relatively succinct account of the issue: RCV and the Illusion of choice.


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2 Comments:

At 5:02 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I remember during the Vietnam war that the Rethuglicans told us “we had to destroy the village to save it”; and now the BOS is considering the same to the Sunset:
https://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/infill-housing-for-outside-lands/

 
At 4:16 PM, Blogger Rob Anderson said...

Actually, Democrat Lyndon Johnson was president when that quote made an impression in 1968. The War in Vietnam, alas, was a bipartisan atrocity.

 

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