r/RankedChoiceVoting

350 archived posts · Nov 2016 – Aug 2026

Don't just protest, don't despair about the broken system, fix it!

Many Americans, Democrats and Republicans, are filled with despair about how their popular will is often denied by a voting system that mangles their intent. Ironically, the solution is the destruction of the Democratic and Republican parties in the USA that deny the popular will. How?

Created Nov 10, 2016

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Many Americans, Democrats and Republicans, Independents and Libertarians, Greens and others, are filled with despair about how their popular will is often denied by a voting system that mangles their intent. Ironically, the solution is the destruction of the political parties in the USA that deny the popular will. How?

The Founding Fathers did not like the idea of political parties and the Founding Father's suspicions were right. You destroy the political parties by reforming our voting system.

On November 8, 2016, the heroes and patriots of Maine instituted Ranked Choice Voting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borda_count

This destroys the First Past The Post voting system in the USA that gives the political parties their power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting

That's right: it's not corruption, it's not conspiracies. The problem is math.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law

This is not a conservative cause. This is not a liberal cause. This is not left or right. This is an American issue.

Spearhead a similar ballot initiative in your state.

Don't just sit there, you can do this America.

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