(Pamela Cosel, Headline News) Democrats will stop at nothing, it seems, in order to win at elections. Now in Seattle a scheme to allow voters to choose more than one “top” candidate is an idea being floated, disguised as Initiative 134.
The initiative to allow voters to “support as many candidates as they want” will be on the November ballot after a group called Seattle Approves pushed for it. The group calls it a “tiny change.”
The initiative, if passed, states it will “make politics less divisive.” The group cited the cities of St. Louis and Fargo as examples, since they both have similar rules, in its push to get the initiative on the fall ballot.
An election is held intentionally to vote for one person or another. In this situation, if the initiative passes, in theory no one person would win if all voters marked their ballots for both candidates, going off the concept put forth by Seattle Approves that “campaigns won’t fight each other over voters.”
In a field of candidates where there are many contestants, the new system, if passed essentially “ranks” the voters’ choices. The theory is that “similar candidates will no longer ‘split the vote’ and all lose.”
Isn’t the point of an election to have only one winner per election race? Isn’t the person who gets the most votes declared the winner? It seems to be the adult version of the participation trophy implemented for elementary school children, so no one feels bad about not winning.
St Louis adopted this very type of voting for its March 2021 primary election, essentially making it “nonpartisan.” But one poll worker clearly disliked the new system, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
“Is this stupid or what?” said one polling manager after reading the instructions with four candidates on the ballot, explaining they could vote for all four.
“What if everybody gets the same amount? Why not pick two? What knucklehead printed this up? I am at the point, people are playing with your mind.”
This type of system is also playing with one’s vote. With Republicans ahead in polls and winning races this year, no wonder Democrats are coming up with new schemes to try and win elections.
