Jason Snead, the director of the Honest Elections Project Action Fund, said the practice of Ranked-Choice Voting is a tool used by the Left to “push politics to the left” and “give more power to the left-wing mega-donors.”
Ranked-Choice Voting, an election process where voters can rank multiple candidates for a single office, is currently used statewide in the states of Alaska and Maine, cities including New York City, and other jurisdictions across the nation.
Snead said the fight against Ranked-Choice Voting is “crucial,” explaining how the Left actively “sugarcoats” the practice to make it appear as an attractive voting process to voters.
“It’s a scheme that’s designed to push politics to the left…It’s about pushing politics to the left and giving more power to the left wing mega donors like George Soros and others that are financing the push for Ranked-Choice Voting all across the country. They want to blow up party primaries and replace them with California-style jungle primaries that weaken the political parties and give more power to those donors. Then they want to use Ranked-Choice Voting in the general election to make sure that we get candidates that are ultimately going to be more left than right,” Snead explained on a recent episode of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
“When you hear about Ranked-Choice Voting, you’re going to hear it called other things, Final Five or Instant-Runoff Voting or whatever. They’ll be talking in a very kind of preachy, nice language about how we need to have open primaries. That’s code for California-style jungle primaries, and that we need to have an ‘inclusive democracy.’ That’s code for Ranked-Choice Voting. They know these policies don’t make sense to people. They know it just makes voting harder. It makes it harder to understand and trust the election and people don’t want them. So they’re doing what the left always does. They’re sugarcoating all of this and using very nice flowery language to conceal what they’re really trying to do, which is upend the elections for partisan gain,” Snead added.
Snead said even though state legislatures can ban the process, as Tennessee has, some states have initiative processes where citizens can lead the charge for a ballot measure.
“Even in states where laws are passed to prevent rank choice voting from being used, there is a concerted two-pronged strategy. If your state has an initiative process where citizens can lead the charge for a ballot measure. The left will organize and will begin that process…They are working every possible angle to push Ranked-Choice Voting into all of our states and I don’t think that we can ever rest on our laurels when it comes to Ranked-Choice Voting,” Snead said.
Snead said this year; the nation could see between six and ten states adopt the Ranked-Choice Voting process via ballot measures; however, he noted how there had been a lot of “buyer’s remorse” surrounding the process.
“Ranked-Choice Voting, when you actually try it, there’s a lot of buyer’s remorse. You never want to hear about that if you’re trying to make the sales pitch, right? You never want to talk about that, but that is where Alaska may be the next fight. They’re actually poised to repeal Ranked-Choice Voting. The flip side is Maine, their legislature has referred a measure to expand ranked choice voting into more contests. So it’ll be a really interesting juxtaposition,” Snead said.
Despite this, Snead said the left is spending “millions and eventually tens of millions of dollars into fundamentally changing our election system.”
“If we’re not careful, we could wake up the day after the November election this fall and find out that six, seven, eight states are now using Ranked-Choice Voting,” Snead warned.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
Photo “People Voting” by Joe Shlabotnik. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
