By: Diane Benjamin
Want to know why the local League of Women Voters are pushing Rank Choice Voting? https://blnnews.com/2025/08/12/league-of-women-voters-accountability-in-question-bloomington-last-night/
Keep reading and find out!
Illinois has been talking about changing how people vote for a few years. The way people voted since the beginning of this country isn’t good enough for miscreants, these people want you to rank candidates, most of which you would never vote for. With this system that outlier can win by default.
Two bills were filed in Springfield:
- House Bill 2431 (HB 2431), to implement RCV in general elections for state executive-branch officials and the General Assembly.
- House Bill 1786 (HB 1786), to create a task force to study the implementation of RCV, a first step toward actually creating it.
HB 2431 enacts RCV only for State offices. Imagine trying to count those results while local elections on the same ballot that doesn’t use it. Since Bloomington has it’s own election authority that overlaps the rest of McLean County, how would RCV be counted? Election results certainly won’t be available on election day.
Rank Choice Voting is not only difficult to count and subject to possible shenanigans, it means the person with the most votes doesn’t win unless they receive over 50% of the vote.
#Democracy
https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/ranked-choice-voting-leftist-attack-on-election-integrity
Excerpts:
With any voting system, the more complicated it is, the greater the risk of manipulation strategies or fraud. Additionally, RCV would make hand counts much more difficult, creating an excuse for computerized vote counting. By contrast, genuine election integrity must involve hand-counted paper ballots.
As implied above, ranked-choice voting can lead to candidates with little genuine support winning elections. The system confuses voters, distracts from policy issues, and forces voters to vote for candidates they otherwise would not support. In the United States, ranked-choice voting was enacted in Maine in 2016 and Alaska in 2020. These efforts, primarily backed by liberals, led to Republican U.S. Representative from Maine Bruce Poliquin losing to Democrat Jared Golden in 2018 despite winning a plurality in the first round. Meanwhile, some political analysts believe that Alaska’s new system, which also eliminates party primaries, will enable liberal Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski’s reelection in 2022 despite her unpopularity among Republicans.
By educating our state legislators and fellow citizens, and being active in our communities, we can stop ranked-choice voting and other anti-election-integrity schemes.
Contact you State reps! Progressives must constantly propose change. Unintended consequences are never considered.
The second bill below only has 1 Democrat sponsor. The other bill has TWO. One of them is Sharon Chung.
That old saying, “Just when you think it can’t get any worse.” Just doesn’t apply in Illinois. It’s opposite as reality is, “it will get worse.” That’s Illinois, crooked as the day is long every time you turn around. Stand still. And OMG what goes on while we sleep.
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Live happy in MSNBC land
Sharon Chung also sponsored and pushed to have rural McLean county pay airport property taxes and save money for Bloomington/Normal residents. Her and Koehler are terrible and will do anything to stay elected and tax the crap out of us. Their followers are the ones who don’t pay taxes.
Any person born and raised in a foreign country or holding dual national citizenship should not be able to hold public office. End of story.
This might be the straw that broke the camel’s back. If this passes, I will be praying for a mass exodus of all reasonable persons from IL… including myself and my family!
Sharon Chung went from part time violin tutor to $530,000 + in her campaign re-election account in just a couple of years !
Being a token DEI/progressive cop hater pays quite well in the State of Illinois.