Rank-vote sneaks by in small Oregon town (No 20-364)

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com

As rank-choice voting is trying to pass on the state level with measure 117, there is another attempt to pass it at the local level in the small town of Oakridge Oregon (population 3,000) with local measure #20-364.   Oakridge’s measure 20-364 would pass a different version of rank-choice voting called STAR voting.  Yes, just like it is extremely difficult to explain rank-choice voting to the public, it is also difficult to explain the differences between competing systems.

6 reasons to vote against Measure 20-364 — a costly, confusing rank-voting scheme

#1. Rank voting confuses voters when tried
#2. Rank voting confusion contributes to lower voter turnout 3%-5%
#3. It is more expensive (one city spent $15 million more to implement it)
#4. Rank voting delays election results by weeks
#5. It is a massive vote trashing machine. People make mistakes or don’t fully use the ranking causing their ballot to be exhausted/eliminated in multiple round tabulations. (NY eliminated 140,000 votes in 2022, Alaska 15,000 in 2022 Maine 8,000 in 2018)
#6. It has a controversial loophole that can conceivably make other people’s votes count more.

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