Three 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.
It is highly impractical because it easily leads to unreasonably large fields of candidates making it nearly impossible for voters to identify them.
In any event, the IRV election format is clearly unconstitutional as said the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1915:
“Preferential voting... was (is) contrary to the intent of The Constitution.”
Judicial offices should remain elective:
There is an effort underway, by a group of 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.
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 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.
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