NYC Approves RCV

The big news recently is that NYC approved ranked choice voting (RCV) in city elections. Sorry for the repeat of this topic, but this is big.

RCV has always been a method of voting that is much more easily experienced than explained. The fact that NYC approved it means that millions of people are going to experience this incredibly important reform of our voting system.

Here’s a little FB video I did explaining it.

While we are talking about the importance of experiencing what NYC approved, have a look at this link to try ranked choice voting for yourself. Imagine what your life would be like if you could do this with candidates. I, for one, would love it.

Arizonans, in particular, are very independent-minded. This is the best for us. I’ve told y’all about Voter Choice Arizona in past articles. I’ve been helping that organization and I’m happy to hear that they are seeing positive success building their coalition of Rs, Ds and Is from the ground up.

It was particularly interesting the the Center for the Future of Arizona did a Gallup poll in which 3/5th of voters expressed support ranked choice voting. This broke down to 69% for Ds, 41% for Rs and 65% for Is.

You can see the results at this link and you can see a column that they placed in the Capitol Times here.

This is a huge development, at least from my perspective. I’ve always assumed that very few people knew of, let alone understood RCV, simply because I never hear people talking about it or it reported on in the news.

I know. My error is in assuming that something would be popular if I hear about it. I’ll bring that up to my therapist, I promise.

But, really, the fact that people know about it and like it, generally, is a great launch pad for the kind of reform we need in Arizona.

Ideally, people in cities and towns all over the state will give it a try before we take a run at a high-stakes ballot measure or something. I can easily see the two parties trying to shut it down at the legislature.