The Case for Rank Choice Voting | Nick Troiano

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Dan Crenshaw

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🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Part 1 of a 2-part series diving into the pros and cons of rank choice voting and other election reforms. Presenting the pro-side, we have election reform advocate Nick Troiano. What is rank choice voting? How has Alaska fared with its move to rank choice this election cycle? Could the extremism we've seen take hold over both parties end if more states adopted rank choice? We also discuss voting by mail, term limits, campaign finance reform, and allowing candidates to make their pitch in 50 words or less on the ballot itself. Stay tuned for Part 2 with WSJ Editorial Board Member Kim Strassel presenting the con-side of rank choice voting.

Nick Troiano is the Executive Director of the Unite America Institute and Unite America, a national organization that works to bridge the growing partisan divide by enacting political reforms. Follow him on Twitter at @NickTroiano.

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident.
0:02.0	That all men are created.
0:04.0	Because the member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.3	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:08.9	This is the podcast for insights into the issues.
0:11.6	China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions.
0:16.0	Breaking it down into simple terms.
0:17.9	We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw.
0:24.4	So our founding fathers were very aware of the risk of
0:27.2	factionalism of feature that is part of every democratic system.
0:30.0	In Federalist Paper 10, James Madison defined factions as groups comprised of a number of citizens,
0:34.4	whether accounting or amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole
0:38.0	who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion or of interest
0:42.0	adverse to the rights of other citizens or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
0:47.2	Madison, as well as others, felt that there would always be factions yet urge that we design a system
0:52.0	that could control its effects today.
0:54.5	It's clear that we have a very polarized political environment, but we are far from reaching
0:58.1	a clear consensus on what to do about it.
1:00.2	One option that's been conceived and received some coverage recently is the idea of ranked choice voting.
1:08.2	So we're fortunate to be joined today by Nick Triano.
1:11.4	Did I get that right?
1:13.4	All right.
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