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Ranked Choice Voting Casts a Dark Cloud on the Foundation of our Republic!
"A Republic, if you can keep it."
-Benjamin Franklin
The right to vote in a free and fair election is one of our most basic civil rights and essential to the maintenance of our Constitutional Republic. Benjamin Franklin's quote in response to the question of what kind of government the United States would be is a reminder that the threat to our Republic is very real.
Throughout history we have seen the fairness of our Elections challenged in numerous ways, and this year on the ballot, the legitimacy and fairness of our elections are at stake once again.
Ranked Choice Voting is perhaps the largest threat to the fairness of our elections, and we need your help to ensure that Colorado says NO to Ranked Choice Voting this November.
Why Does It Matter?
Ballot initiative 131 fundamentally reengineers how both primary and general elections are conducted in the state of Colorado. First, it eliminates time-honored single-party nominations to the primary ballot and creates an all-new, all-candidate primary in which voters of all parties, or no parties, would participate. It also replaces the traditional one-person, one-vote general election method with automated, “instant run-off” Ranked Choice Voting.
Voters are overwhelmingly unprepared for the sweeping changes Prop 131 will bring to the way Colorado conducts elections.
"The result is voters are losing their ability to most effectively choose their own leadership. We won’t choose the candidates, and the candidates will not reflect our values."
How Does RCV Work?
“You never know who won in ranked choice. You could be in third place and they announce that you won the election.It’s a total rigged deal. Just like a lot of other things in this country.”
-Donald Trump
Ranked Choice Voting is marketed as an exciting new way to supercharge Democracy and improve the quality of candidates. It is portrayed as a method to modernize and save our elections. RCV is a method of voting that allows a computer algorithm to conduct a series of black-box run-offs between the final four candidates in a race, aimed at achieving a contrived majority of votes in order to declare a winner.
