Atlanta News

303 readers

90 users here now

News about Atlanta, auto-sourced from RSS feeds of local and regional media. User names indicate the news source.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Ranked-choice voting suffers setback in Georgia legislative session (saportareport.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

From the Saporta Report:

Ranked-choice voting (RCV) suffered a setback in Georgia this legislative session, with the Senate Ethics Committee passing SB355 — a bill that would ban RCV in Georgia. RCV has been gaining traction around the country and online, with supporters saying it would allow more third-party candidates to be elected, greatly reduce runoffs, and lead to […]

The post Ranked-choice voting suffers setback in Georgia legislative session appeared first on SaportaReport.

top 3 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] blackfire 1 points 8 months ago

Would hate for there to be a break of the 2 party system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

@saportareport Well, yeah. It's much easier to game the system with the well-known status quo. 🤷‍♂️

[–] bran 1 points 8 months ago

So aggravating! Seems like we're having runoffs so frequently, you'd think that advocating for RCV purely on the merits of cost savings would surely be well received... 🤦