By: Diane Benjamin
The Bloomington meeting was 15 minutes last night. Brady, Mosley, and Straza were together somewhere and attended remotely.
The only interesting thing was 1 public comment by Diana Hauman on behalf of the League of Women Voters. They claim to be non-partisan but aren’t. The City Council is supposed to be non-partisan but isn’t.
Non-Partisan is a fiction of the left’s imagination to make you fall for whatever they present.
Bloomington City Code can be freely violated even though it states elections are non-partisan. The LWV is no different, they aren’t even all women.
Hear her comments by clicking Play below. Hauman is announcing their “investigation” into the two local election authorities. Keep in mind they opposed eliminating the Bloomington Election Commission when it was on the ballot so pretending this will be an independent report is laughable.
Their report will likely say a non-partisan commission appointed by a judge should replace both the Bloomington Election Commission and voting handled by the McLean County Clerk. That means voters have NO ONE to hold accountable for screwing up elections. The BEC is already that. Add, as stated above, non-partisan is fiction. Progressives always push to remove citizens from conversations. LWV identified “stakeholders” which means your opinions are immaterial.
Now add this story: https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2023-10-12/league-of-women-voters-hopes-to-educate-mclean-county-about-ranked-choice-voting
The LWV wants to “educate” voters on Rank Choice Voting.
The argument against Rank Choice Voting can be summed up in two words: Lisa Murkowski.
She would not be a US Senator from Alaska without it. She did not receive the most votes. Rank Choice forces voters to cast votes for people they do not want elected. The system is easy to rig, just keep the person expected to win under 50% of the vote. Throw in a libertarian, independent, and green party candidate to dilute the vote and by magic nobody gets 50%
Election results won’t be immediately available. The games then begin. The lowest vote getters are eliminated and those voters ranked voting are included in the count. Murkowski won because she got the most second choice votes.
Cody Hendrick’s spouse Eric Hanson is quoted in that story:
There are pros and cons. League member Eric Hansen said one of the benefits of Ranked Choice Voting is that it could lead to less negative campaigning, like candidate attack ads.
“Candidates will now have to appeal to all voters. They’re not looking toward a specific sect,” Hansen said. “And what this does is really facilitates a less polarizing campaign, which I think every single voter I know wants to see a little bit more of.”
Interpretation: To appeal to all voters candidates have to lie. Less polarizing campaigns will lead to totally polarized government because candidates didn’t reveal what they stood for.
The League of Women Voters is a joke and should be treated as such.
If they remove Election authority from the County Clerks office and/or institute “Rank Choice” voting, this County, and Towns will never again have a fair election. It’s the same as gerrymandering only through fiat.
Already the illegitimate, incompetent, biased, and “In-league with Democrats BEC is the election farce of a joke in Central Illinois. Even NBC took hits at their poster “baby” on the left, Pritzker about how ridiculous Illinois gerrymandering is and the Dems just keep pushing and pushing.
Yes, there are people or groups like LWV that purposely mislead people, but I never understand why honest reformers push ranked choice voting. Approval Voting also know as Acceptance Voting better reflects the intent of the voters, is easier to understand, is easier (and cheaper) to implement, and is impossible to game other than outright fraud.
Alex, Bob, Chris, Drew, Taylor. You vote for/against each of them. If you like them in that order, you can decide where the ‘good enough’ cutoff is.
Is Bob a very distant second? Only vote for Alex vs being ‘forced’ to vote Bob under RCV.
‘Anybody but Taylor’? You don’t have to worry about ranking the others when you don’t really care, or about Not voting for ‘good enough’ candidates if the RCV implementation only allows 2-3 choices.
Or whatever in between. And you can actually vote for ‘Anyone for/against my pet issue’.
Whoever gets the most votes wins. No confusing math or delays – Very understandable, even for those with a grade-school education.
Rank Choice voting seems like a direct attack on representative democracy and should be thrown in the garbage.
The LWV should now be known as the League of Men & Women Voters. They are Leftist Progressive Marxists. When you hear them bemoaning a, “threat to democracy.” They are actually mad that their incessant push for, “Authoritarian democracy,” is being threatened. That is what they want. They deliberately fool the general public into thinking they are referring to, “Representative democracy.” Nope. That is what they want to get rid of.
Rank Choice Voting is unconstitutional in a number of facets. It has been challenged and will continue to be challenged. Diana Hauman was pushing this communist activity when she was on council.