Comments by "Dan A" (@DanA-nl5uo) on "Ranked Choice Voting Works Perfectly In Maine" video.

We need rank choice voting nation wide. The best part of rank choice voting is that it forces the parties to see the what the voters actually want policy wise.
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@courtlandstavley6178 rank choice voting make it so that the non likely candidate say the one for 100% renewable energy or ending the wars and bringing our troops home will not have to worry about the "don't throw your vote away" argument so people can feel free to first vote for the candidate who actually represents them best. This means a progressive candidate gets more votes and is taken more seriously because their is no risk of a third party candidate being a "spoiler" that will bring more real issues to the discussion not just the lesser of 2 evils argument that both parties have fallen into running on. We need candidates who are free to actually run on a platform of being for something.
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@courtlandstavley6178 it opens the door to debate. We didnt end up with this broken system over night and sadly we won't fix it over night either. But rank choice voting will end the lesser of two evils era and allow people to come out and vote their views. The most important part of that being the ability to get people to the polls to vote for something. But we need more people like AOC or Jill Stein to be heard and for people to feel it is safe to vote for them because they are not throwing away their vote. Ask yourself this in 2016 if we had one round of rank choice voting with everyone running in the primary who would be president. My guess is definitely not trump I would say Bernie Sanders because he would pull votes from Trump and the establishment GOP candidates would get more of the remaining vote in the GOP them trump. I honestly think the best solution is to remove the primary all together and have one round of rank choice voting where all the candidates are listed and everyone ranks them. I honestly don't see why we can't vote electronically either but from the comfort of our own homes from our smart phone it computer. We are able to develop safe electronic billing systems with a low fraud rate we could do the same thing with the election system.
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