For all of his many flaws, I don’t think Jackson was an agent of a foreign power.

Even so, there are places in Oklahoma where a 20 isn’t considered valid currency.

That would require letting Joe Exotic out of prison.

Just let the guy rot, then when he’s served his time, send him to whatever country his meth head husband is from.

I was going to type up a bunch here, but instead I’ll share some links.

First is this section of this wiki.

2009 Burlington Mayoral Race. The wrong guy won.

The Monotonicity issue is unique to Ranked Choice, and is pretty fucking bad.

These people have a good breakdown as well.

Then there was the fun incident in Alameda County.

Finally, the guy who invented the system threw it out as deeply flawed. Mostly because it doesn’t find the Pairwise winner, i.e. the candidate who can win in a one on one election vs every other candidate. Also called the Condorcet winner.

As a side note, Nicolas de Caritat, the Marquis de Condorcet, was fucking based.

The problem is, primaries are really good at selecting the worst candidate.

See, the problem comes from something called candidate cloning.

See, you might get more than 50% of the population supporting Tim Walz, or AOC.

But when you force the people to choose between the two, well, now you have less than 50%.

Add in a few more candidates with reasonable platforms and you can get the average support down to less than 10%.

Then all you have to do is add in a candidate with a markedly different platform and 15% support can make them the winner of the primary.

Ranked Choice cannot fix this problem, regardless of the claims made by proponents.

The voting system that can fix things is Approval.

Under Approval, you can vote for A, B, and C. The winner is the person with the highest overall approval.

Ranked Choice is a deeply flawed system.

Approval is far better, or if you like to be granular in your voting STAR.

Doug was that sort of background racist that most MAGA are, but refuse to admit.

He flinched when a black man walked toward him, and then said he’d create “white jeopardy”, not realizing that it was already a thing.

Tom Hanks pulled it off perfectly.