Baker calls ranked-choice voting too complicated

[TexasTowelie]

GOV. CHARLIE BAKER said on Tuesday that he opposes ranked-choice voting because it’s too complicated for both voters and election officials to carry out.

The governor said voting is already complicated enough. “From our point of view, this thing [ranked-choice voting] is too complicated to have on top of that,” he said at a State House press conference. “The counting process alone could get unbelievably difficult.”

Jesse Mermell, an honorary co-chair and senior advisor to the ranked choice campaign, said ranked choice was implemented in Maine with no problems and has been in use in Cambridge since 1941.

“I think that’s insulting to Massachusetts voters,” she said of the governor’s comments.
Mermell ran for Congress earlier this year in a Democratic primary race that many considered the poster child for ranked-choice voting. Jake Auchincloss won in a field of seven with 22.4 percent of the vote. Mermell came in second with 21.1 percent.

Read more: https://commonwealthmagazine.org/politics/baker-calls-ranked-choice-voting-too-complicated/

[PBC_Democrat]

1. This is disappointing ...

We need to break the hold of the two major parties and get more people and parties involved in our government.

It would be awesome to vote for the Green candidate amd the Progressive candidate and then my vote eventually fall to the Democrat.

I suspect a lot more people would vote and that the minor parties have more support than they know.