True North

I got this from the Minnesota Voters Alliance - the group pushing back against the Instant Runoff Voting scam:

A public hearing is scheduled for April 21 regarding the Commission’s consideration of Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) and will be held at 7:00 at the Battle Creek Community Center; 75 S. Winthrop.  This is a PUBLIC hearing at which we will present the many reasons the IRV referendum question should not be considered as a Charter Commission matter. The public is invited and may address the Commission. The Minnesota Voters Alliance will advance 3 general reasons for its opposition to Charter Commissions consideration of IRV;

1.     IRV is not a new idea and its purported benefits will not survive scrutiny of the claims made its supporters. While it is always temping and somewhat entertaining to think that something new is better, compromising our individual absolute right of our vote to count must not be considered.

2.     The one person - one vote practice is the only way to guarantee fairness to the individual voter. All other ranked choice and preferential schemes violate this basic voter guarantee.

3.      The City would be better served if the Commission delayed further consideration of the matter until the law suit challenging the proposed scheme in Minneapolis has worked its way through the courts and obtained a final ruling.

IRV is being pushed by the radical left - which is the political mainstream in Saint Paul.  And I find it odd that some of the same people that preach suspicion of electronic voting (rightly so!) are the biggest supporters of IRV, which will require even more-complex, less-auditable, more error-prone, more jiggerable software than electronic winner-takes-all voting!

I can not make it to the meeting - but I hope you can. 

Cross-posted and comments welcome at Shot In The Dark.