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Proposal Details

Proposal ID	993
Proposal	2020 Platform Amendment: Chapter I, Section A, 1 Electoral Reform
Presenter	Platform Committee Sponsor: Green Party of California
Floor Manager	Trahern Crews
Phase	Closed
Discussion	01/27/2020 - 02/23/2020
Voting	02/24/2020 - 03/01/2020
Result	Adopted
Presens Quorum	34 0.6666
Consens Quorum	56 0.6666 of Yes and No Votes

Background

In 2012, the GPUS approved proposal #676 Political Reform https://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=676.

In that proposal the term Instant Run-Off Voting (and the abbreviation IRV) was used in two planks

"b. Enact Instant Run-off Voting (IRV) for chief executive offices like mayor, governor and president and other single-seat elections. Under IRV, voters can rank candidates in their order of preference (1,2,3, etc.) IRV ensures that the eventual winner has majority support and allows voters to express their preferences knowing that supporting their favorite candidate will not inadvertently help their least favored candidate. IRV thus frees voters from being forced to choose between the lesser of two evils, and saves money by eliminating unnecessary run-off elections."

"g. Abolish the Electoral College and provide for the direct national election of the president by Instant Runoff Voting.:

Since the passage of this #676, the term Ranked Choice Voting has taken hold and is now used instead of Instant Run-Off Voting.

This proposal would update the Political Reform plank of the GPUS platform to reflect this change in terminology. It would also spell out the use of ranked choice voting each time it is used, which seems more appropriate for a short platform plank.

Proposal

Amend Chapter I, Democracy, Section A, Political Reform to read:
b. Enact Ranked Choice Voting for chief executive offices like mayor, governor and president and other single-seat elections. Under Ranked Choice Voting, voters can rank candidates in their order of preference (1,2,3, etc.) Ranked Choice Voting ensures that the eventual winner has majority support and allows voters to express their preferences knowing that supporting their favorite candidate will not inadvertently help their least favored candidate. Ranked Choice Voting thus frees voters from being forced to choose between the lesser of two evils, and saves money by eliminating unnecessary run-off elections.

g. Abolish the Electoral College and provide for the direct national election of the president by Ranked Choice Voting.

Note that there is additional text in (g) that would not be amended by this proposal, only this first sentence.

Resources

Approval of this proposal will amend the 2018 GPUS Platform.

Contact(s):
Platform Committee platcom@gp.org; Co-chairs Bruce Hinkforth, Tim Willard
Mike Feinstein,mfeinstein@feinstein.org

References

> b. Enact Instant Run-off Voting (IRV) for chief executive offices like mayor, governor and president and other single-seat elections. Under IRV, voters can rank candidates in their order of preference (1,2,3, etc.) IRV ensures that the eventual winner has majority support and allows voters to express their preferences knowing that supporting their favorite candidate will not inadvertently help their least favored candidate. IRV thus frees voters from being forced to choose between the lesser of two evils, and saves money by eliminating unnecessary run-off elections.

> g. Abolish the Electoral College and provide for the direct national election of the president by Instant Runoff Voting.

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The Green Party of the United States voting system is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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To independently verify a ranked choice vote, or for information about how that works, go to Jonathan Lundell's Voting Page and upload the ballot file from the ranked choice vote result page. JL's ranked choice module is licensed under an alternate free software license.

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