CTH took considerable flak for reporting on the uniparty system of Georgia politics prior to the 2020 midterms. With the election in the rearview mirror, the Georgia Secretary of State is now proposing to permanently codify Democrat control of the state.
(Via Reason) […] Speaking to The New York Times last week, Raffensperger said he would petition the state legislature with three separate proposals. One would force large counties to open more locations for voting early. Another would lower the vote total needed to avoid a runoff from 50 percent to 45.
The third proposal is the most consequential, and the most interesting. Raffensperger will also state lawmakers to consider switching to a ranked choice ballot for future elections. (read more)
Ranked Choice Voting is a particularly insidious way for party control officers to stop unapproved candidates, it also provides the opposition party with a tool to defeat specifically targeted opponents. As we saw in the Alaska midterm race, it was the second-choice votes of democrats that pushed Senator Lisa Murkowski to victory.
Hopefully the people of Georgia will tell their legislature this is not a workable solution.
Meanwhile Ronna McDaniel is promoting herself for RNC reelection and urging republican voters to unify.
(NY Post) […] “The RNC, we don’t pick the candidates. The voters do. We don’t do the messaging. That’s up to the campaigns. But we do do turnout. The one thing we’re seeing right now is that turnout was sky high, but Republicans didn’t vote for every Republican candidate,” [McDaniel] said.
Which, as customary, provides the opening for the insufferable Karl Rove to define acceptable republicans.
“We had a lot of candidates, who, at the end of the day, Republicans … couldn’t vote for. … The reason was we ended up with some knuckleheads who were endorsed by President Trump without proper vetting,” Rove told Catsimatidis.
“Quality of candidates matters. What we saw in this election was the return of the ticket-splitters. It was a bunch of Republicans who said, ‘I can’t bring myself to [vote for] somebody who is subpar or unqualified for office,’” he said. (more)
Emperor Rove always pretends not to notice that perhaps election outcomes are the result of a base of the party not enthusiastic with his “acceptable republican,” and the establishment base not supporting the primary victor.
According to the professionally republican voices, the base must support the party candidate if it is an establishment victor; however, if the non-approved party candidate gains victory in the primary, the establishment voters are under no such expectation…. Nothing has changed in GOPe politics.
The base of the GOP needs a strategic alliance with U.S. trade unions.
The trade unions need to get rid of the communists in their leadership and join in unity withe the MAGA middle-class. The rank-and-file trade union membership is already in alliance with the MAGA movement, but the leadership needs to be removed and replaced by more floor votes.
If MAGA and the Trade Unions can unite, we have the foundation to reframe the entire political dynamic.
This is where the U.S. Potato Rebellion needs to follow the model of the Polish Solidarity movement.
The potato rebellion grows underground, when it strategically surfaces it has the ability to grow more eyes.
Trade unions, farmers, yellow vests and the MAGA working class have a unified interest….
…..We control everything if we unite.
This evil clown again?
Criminal, antiAmerican bastard.
Elitist POS denying citizens of Georgia a voice.
RCV doesn’t deny voters a voice it mearly dilutes the strength of the voters voice so that those who control the pre-selected candidate wins.
I never look at this man without mentally seeing him in a Nazi uniform. Never. He just looks like a throwback to that terrible, terrible era.
In short, he makes my skin crawl
Imagine trying to do a hand recount with Ranked Choice. That is reason enough to avoid it which is another reason the Uniparty wants it
Isn’t Raffensperger a known Democrat who ran and won as a Republican? Didn’t he use a consulting group in DC that coached democrats on how to run as republicans?
Raffensperger, Kemp, and Zelenskyy were at the heart of the impeachments of Trump.
And Trump called them for what they were, when they were doing the so called RECOUNT for 2020.
The Stupid Party strikes again.
It’s not stupid. It’s meant to be — destructive.
Obama wasn’t a stupid POTUS. He was very effective in working toward the — destruction of the United States + the implosion of Western Civilization.
The GOP Leadership are his —– partners.
And we’re the suckers sitting on the bench, wondering why we never win the big games.
Didn’t recognize the name at first…. Remember seeing you on InfoWars.
God bless….
I switched over the main page of my new site.
It highlights a quote from this Conservative Treehouse post + gives contact info for the major Republican Majority Office Holders in the State.
https://giwe.us/
What happened to “one man one vote?”
Too many decided to vote to Drain the Swamp with Trump in 2016…
There’s nothing quite like giving a democrat the chance to choose their favorite RINO, after their preferred candidate loses the general election, effectively giving them the opportunity to vote twice. What a load of horse shit.
I would like to think that we would turn the tables on them but, ultimately, it is democrats that vote for their favorite democrat-uniparty candidate as their first choice and their favorite republican-uniparty candidate as their second choice. That way a member of the uniparty wins. In actuality, I am sure that they will have ballots pre-made for whatever outcome they desire.
In the meantime, republican voters will split their votes between two republican candidates. Unless they learn to vote for the MAGA candidate first and the obscure democrat/independent/greenie candidate second, they will always lose.
These same people control the ballots, not the voters. Unfortunately, ballots are quite easy to print and insert into the tally, voters not so much. Our Republic is broken and that’s the way the UniParty likes it. If it were not so, it would change.
Ranked Choice Voting is clearly the means to eliminate Conservatives…
It’s horrible. Our election system is horrible.
During the Obama regime I sent email and online messages to Kemp, Raffensperger, and my state and local representatives about fixing the problem by changing the process to in-person voting alone. No reply from any of them.
In 2020 I sent letters with stamps on the envelope to the same people. No reply from any of them.
When the “elected” officials do not represent their constituents in a republic that presumably operates with democratic processes, the government is not representative, but authoritarian at best, totalitarian at worst. Which of these unsavory alternatives best describes the Georgia government at all levels?
Honestly I don’t know what to do about all of this except to vote for Donald J. Trump in 2024 even if I have to write him in. No one else that I see on the horizon at this point will do. I cannot bear the GOPe any longer.
Criminals being criminals.
The one thing we’re seeing right now is that turnout was sky high, but Republicans didn’t vote for every Republican candidate,” [McDaniel] said.
That’s a bald-faced lie. Ronna and the RNC allowed the Democrats to get away with cheating-by-mail again in those areas where populist MAGA candidates won their primaries and were on the ballot, and in the case of Alaska, they supported changing the elections to “ranked choice” in order to get Murkowski back into the Senate and keep Palin out of the House.
And you’ll never get the Democrat communists out of leadership in the unions because once someone is put in that position, they’ll start dangling money and other perqs in front of them and compromise them.
Georgia working and middle class voters, whether GOP, independent, or dem, need to unite on fighting ranked choice voting and do whatever it takes to prevent it from happening. This needs to be a single issue movement. Ranked choice rigs the system in favor of the uniparty.
I tried to warn Georgia voters about him.
Brad doesn’t represent republicans. He represents and answers to the Chamber just like Kemp.
One person one vote isn’t in the constitution specifically but this deprives voters of this important right.
“equal protection clause” IS in the US Constitution…..RE: 14th Amendment……..when you have diluted the vote so that it is no longer an equivalent choice it is a constitutional violation
A disaster. It gives losers a chance at a second vote. Greenies know going in that they’re losing. Why let them vote twice?
Everyone else keeps their original vote unless they’re stupid. What a dumb idea!
This one should be in Guantanamo for life. He won with the Dominion machines.
Nevada is quickly turning anti-MAGA corrupt blue with the assistance of Ken Griffin a major donor to Ron DeSantis. Maybe Ron doesn’t know that taking money from people trying to ruin our elections is a bad idea?
https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/question-3-backers-promote-ranked-choice-voting-with-major-out-of-state-money
“Almost all of that money has come from out-of-state donors, led by a $5 million contribution from Katherine Gehl, a Chicago-based businesswoman who founded the Institute for Political Innovation and pioneered the concept of Final-Five Voting, the model for Nevada’s Question 3.
The group also received major contributions from:
!!!??? …. what a good idea!!! The counrtry is… well… DONE! Did I ever see a country so ransacked… so fast?!
I don’t understand how ranked-choice voting isn’t election rigging. I assume it’s been challenged in the courts and the courts have found it legal.
On the surface it seems like a total scam, but given what’s going on in our country it fits nicely.
Wake up and watch what is happening in small population states like Alaska. They are using these states for testing grounds to get things like RCV set up. Alaska “passed” proposition 2 (RCV) in the fraudulent 2020 election by less than 1% and no one (including our own GOP) wanted to call it out. Now we are stuck with this crap even though our majority REPUBLICAN legislature can repeal it. Instead, they have just joined with democrats to create a liberal caucus.
Another testing ground in Alaska right now is the free speech travesty happening to David Eastman. PLEASE WRITE ABOUT IT SUNDANCE: https://thefederalist.com/2022/12/13/in-alaska-the-first-amendment-is-on-trial-as-the-left-tries-to-punish-speech/
https://alaskawatchman.com/2022/12/09/alaskas-ranked-choice-election-marred-by-record-low-turnout-mass-confusion/
https://mustreadalaska.com/senate-democrat-dominated-majority-announces-formation-and-sen-stevens-incoming-senate-president-says-he-doubts-theyll-overturn-ranked-choice-voting/
I want to ask a question.
Do we agree there is corruption in Nevada and the Electoral Systems in Nevada – in particular Clark County?
Who would like to see the new Governor Sheriff (RINO) Joe Lombardo do a Ron DeSantis and SACK all the corrupt voting officials in Las Vegas/Clark, Reno and wherever else in Nevada they reside.
Frankly, I don’t think this will happen.
BUT.
Would or Could Sheriff (RINO) Joe Lombardo be lured onto Steve Bannon’s War Room?
I believe his huge ego could allow that to happen.
I would therefore love to see Lombardo in Studio with Bannon.
Bannon could then put the hard word on (RINO) Lombardo about Corrupt Elections in Nevada AND the Corruption surrounding the Las Vegas Massacre and FBI/CIA etc.
Lure Lombardo on and then HIT HIM with actual TOUGH QUESTIONS and don’t let him evade these questions.
That – I would like to see.
Steve – if you’re reading this – Get Sheriff (RINO) Lombardo ON – and Set Him On FIRE.
Hang this SOB from the nearest lamp post.
If Raffensberger is proposing it, IT IS EVIL and ANTI-American. It’s ELECTION FRAUD mad legal. This guy is EVIL – who is paying him off?
I thought it was kind of strange that only him and Kemp won by huge margins in the midterms. Everybody else in Georgia kind of squeaked by except for Marjorie Taylor Greene. Now they can have bragging rights that they are very special and can do what they want, since their ideas are popular.
I think that they got a hold of the Democrat plans on how to circumvent and control the election machines. I believe Kemp is China-man so his sidekick Raffensberger probably is also.
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There’s only one purpose for implementing Ranked Choice… and that’s to manipulate elections. It’s a process and mechanism THAT IS LITERALLY DESIGNED TO SCREW AROUND WITH THE NUMBERS. I mean, manipulating percentages IS THE WHOLE POINT… it’s a feature, not a stolen election. How convenient.
It’s a way for Democrats to always win.
He’s a F’n Democrat!!!
The “republican” party needs to do two things
Wonder if this low down CD’s (closet democrat) bank account balance just went way up? With the 5th column active in the repub party, that party is toast.
MTG knew nothing about this on Bannon’s Warroom today.
Mr Raffensperger is what I refer to as a great Republican.
That’s because I accept them as they are vs whining about what I “wish” someone else would be.
You’ll see Republicans pushing this ideology in states everywhere here shortly. The party hasn’t been conservative in 70 years, figure it out, have enough principle to take responsibility for yourself and get away from the party!!!
Ranked choice voting is not a legitimate system for voting, it is open to complete fraud or manipulation. It is a bad idea, it allows one party to gain control of the system without fair representation. ALASKA. The two GOP candidates combined had more votes than the democrat, but the democrat had a higher % therefore they won during the final vote because the percentage threshold is lower. It is a garbage idea.
Ranked choice voting MAY be acceptable if one of the choices is
NONE OF THE ABOVE!!!
Great article but if the conservatives can’t rid the party leadership of faux Republicans like Romney, McCain, McConnell, McCarthy, etc, how do the unions rid themselves of their mafia/communist leadership?
As long as our leaders treat the Constitution as toilet paper they will treat the people as shit. As long as normal people buy into the toleration and negotiate bs you will see your freedoms destroyed. I dont’t want to build back better, I want the America I knew in the fifties and sixties before the hippies and druggies destroyed everything.
Vote for the MAGA candidate as choice #1 and write in Mickey Mouse as choice #2 and Santa Claus as choice #3. Problem solved?
No. See following post.
People tend to vote for their ideal candidate for #1 then they vote for the less pleasing for #2, then they just pick the incumbent for #3. This could give #3 the win because that vote is on every ballot but #1 and 2 are not. If the counting goes 3 rounds #3 gets votes every round but 1 and 2 do not.
Ranked choice voting is horrible. Contrary to proponents claims, it is confusing. We have it where I live and it is difficult to explain. When people vote there are all kinds of spoiled ballots and many people that don’t rank any. When someone only votes for one person it favors other candidates because people that rank more than one get more than one vote.
So, some people get to have their votes counted multiple times and others get one shot. If a candidate doesn’t get over 50% in the first round, anyone who only voted for that person gets their ballot tossed for 2nd or third round because they have not ranked more than one.
Some people refuse to comply with ranking and many simply do not want to take time to learn about more than 2 choices, which can favor the fringe candidates and definitely incumbents.
RCV is overwhelming supported by democrats and if a republican supports it they are stupid or simply a democrat. Anything that has overwhelming democrat support will turn out to be a disaster and republicans better smarten up. Minneapolis has it and look at the clusterphuk that city has become.
WTF!
Any Republican pushing ranked choice voting is really a Democrat.
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