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These kind of business-minded Republicans are pretty good at selling things,

and most of the arguments wasn't about justice or truth or some concept like democracy generally.

It was about what this system, which would come to be called the Cincinnati method, can do for you.

Your ballot will keep working for you.

Things like that were said.

Thank you. Things like that were said. If I say the words ranked choice voting to you, probably the first thing you'll think of is this is a progressive or liberal or at least more left side of the politics equation solution.

And more than a few of you might think, yeah, that's designed to help those type of people win elections. I mean, didn't Trump just say to stay away from ranked choice voting and didn't

the Heritage Foundation attack it as anti-democracy? Well, if we look at the history of it, like so many things, it's different.

It actually gets its American start in the 1920s and by a group of Republicans.

See, Boss George B. Cox since the 1880s, when he starts as a clerk and a member of the Young Blaine Club, develops a rigid control over the political machine in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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