Portland city council is confused about their ranked-choice voting procedure rough draft. Commissioners Mingus Mapps, Rene Gonzalez and Dab Ryan raised some concerns about how byzantine the process is, but Charter Implementation Transition Manager Shoshanah Oppenheim said to just trust the outside experts that the City consulted. They know best. Ranked-choice voting is flawed. It's a way to keep the voters of losing loony candidates to stay in the game, and redistribute their votes to their second-choice less-loony candidates that remain. Voters who voted for more sensible candidates can only watch in horror, as the 3rd, 4th and 5th place candidates end up getting more votes with each round, and overtake the candidate that won originally, but just not above the 50% cutoff.
Portland city council is confused about their ranked-choice voting procedure rough draft. Commissioners Mingus Mapps, Rene Gonzalez and Dab Ryan raised some concerns about how byzantine the process is, but Charter Implementation Transition Manager Shoshanah Oppenheim said to just trust the outside experts that the City consulted. They know best. Ranked-choice voting is flawed. It's a way to keep the voters of losing loony candidates to stay in the game, and redistribute their votes to their second-choice less-loony candidates that remain. Voters who voted for more sensible candidates can only watch in horror, as the 3rd, 4th and 5th place candidates end up getting more votes with each round, and overtake the candidate that won originally, but just not above the 50% cutoff.