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Voters in at least seven states will decide ballot measures this year concerning ranked-choice voting. A handful of left-leaning, deep-pocketed donors are driving the push for this fundamental shift in elections. Yet despite a huge fundraising advantage, they seem to have given up trying to convince voters. Instead, the strategy is to distract them or — in Montana — to fool them. …
RCV backers have figured out that voters don’t like what they’re selling. A leaked memo in Arizona shows RCV supporters trying to refocus on vague concepts like “fairness.” Another memo from a pro-RCV group demands that people stop identifying “ranked choice voting” by name.
Yet the trick they’re trying to pull in Montana, using a pair of ballot measures that make no reference to RCV at all, is even more deceptive.
Read the whole piece at The American Spectator.