Major areas of concern:
Instant Runoff Voting should be stopped:
IRV is undemocratic because it counts the secondary choices of some voters while counting only the first choice votes of others!
It eliminates the primaries which play a vital role in the electoral process; It creates false majorities, suppresses minority viewpoints and its structure makes it susceptible to strategic manipulation.
But the worst aspect of IRV is that, as the Supreme Court recently admitted,
“a voter cannot be sure that his or her vote for a candidate will help, rather than hurt, that candidate.”The IRV election format is clearly unconstitutional, as said the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1915:
“The quotations made from the different cases are NOT chance expressions. They are indicative of the idea, which permeates all legal thought, that when a voter votes for the candidate of his choice, his vote must be counted one, and it cannot be defeated or its effect lessened, except by the vote of another elector voting for one.”
See the Appellants’ Principal Brief submitted to the MN Supreme Court
Nonpartisan Elections should be abolished in favor of partisan 'basis' elections:
Nonpartisan elections conceal the party affiliations of the candidates, restrict choices, limit accountability and weaken the voice of the people.
The law allows the candidates to seek and receive political party support, but deprives voters from such knowledge on the ballot.
Nonpartisan elections, in St. Paul especially, also fail to guarantee that each party (and each qualified Independent) can be represented in the general election by limiting it to just the top two overall vote-getters.
Judicial offices should remain elective:
There is an effort underway, by a group of (so-called nonpartisan) political insiders known as the Quie Commission, who are attempting to remove our constitutional right to elect judges.
They want to create a panel of bureaucrats to choose them for us. We strongly oppose this effort! We believe that an election system, not a retention system, places voters in the strongest position to influence the judicial process.
This issue was fully debated in the 1857 Constitutional Convention, with the delegates ultimately deciding on an election system. Once we give up our right to vote, we will never get it back.
We should fix our election system, not scrap it.
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