Alan Savage

President of California Approves | Approval Voting

[Equal Vote Coalition @TheEqualVote]

Sometimes unpopular things need to be said out loud. In an electoral reform landscape where Ranked Choice Voting has long been the emperor with no clothes, Equal Vote was one of the first organizations to speak out. 1/7
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[Alan Savage @asavageiv]

@cwgabriel @TychoBrahe Y'all really should be using Approval Voting for this to avoid the spoiler effect.

[The Center for Election Science @ElectionScience]

Our Executive Director, Aaron Hamlin, discussed how approval voting could fix our broken election system. Check out his interview on Type One Planet! https://t.co/KhhqLo9YEu

[The Center for Election Science @ElectionScience]

Our current plurality method of voting encourages mudslinging and negative attacks. This was on full display in 2022's Republican primary for TN-05. Pick-all-you-like voting encourages candidates to focus on ideas instead of attacks. #TNpolitics

[The Center for Election Science @ElectionScience]

More candidates in an elections seems like a good thing, right? The truth is, our current pick-one voting method can actually skew results as the number of candidates increases. Approval voting solves this problem. https://t.co/ro9RvlHB1F

[The Center for Election Science @ElectionScience]

Switching to Pick-All-You-Like Voting rewards consensus candidates instead of allowing vote-splitting to give us bad results.

[The Center for Election Science @ElectionScience]

No one should be able to win an election without broad support from voters -- but our current voting method makes it easy for bad candidates to eke out a win because of vote-splitting. Luckily, there's an easy fix: https://t.co/ro9RvlHB1F

[Equal Vote Coalition @TheEqualVote]

BREAKING NEWS: We have long taken a firm stance that RCV does not pass our minimum bar for fair, secure, and viable election reform - for a number of reasons - but when catastrophic fails like this happen, we are as dismayed as anyone. @sfchronicle https://t.co/lbnvJ5k8B0
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[The Center for Election Science @ElectionScience]

When it comes to electing the winner that would beat all the other candidates in a one-on-one race, #ApprovalVoting works better than plurality voting, runoffs, AND #rankedchoicevoting. READ MORE: https://t.co/JAO176jWbf

[Rogs 🔍🔸 @ESRogs]

@BenChapmanMagic For anyone reading this thread, I recommend taking a look at @loganb's account of what happened as well.

There are some differences...

https://t.co/x6rA5rQZ1a

[The Center for Election Science @ElectionScience]

#RankedChoice voting does not guarantee a majority winner. Many times, it can only offer a majority winner after discarding votes. READ MORE: https://t.co/B2KkdTq0uY #rcv #rankedchoicevoting #approvalvoting

[The Center for Election Science @ElectionScience]

We analyzed the results of Alaska's recent ranked choice election and found that voters fell victim to the spoiler effect—something RCV proponents often say is impossible. Our deep dive into the data reveals how this happened, and why it's not a surprise.

https://t.co/3mbfiZub5n

[Alan Savage @asavageiv]

@NotionHQ @ndreiserban Please implement this. The default header styles are way too similar. H1 and H2 are very hard to distinguish!

[Aaron Hamlin @aaronfhamlin]

Part of my next article will highlight explicitly false claims about RCV that go completely unquestioned. Like this one. @SarahPalinUSA voters didn't get their second choice counted because their second choice candidate was already artificially eliminated.

[CaliforniaApproves @CAapproves]

Give a read to our February Newsletter - https://t.co/mgnr7IdqJL
#vote #voting #election #elections #approvalvoting #california #sanfrancisco

[Alan Savage @asavageiv]

@VotingReformer This fixes the vote splitting problems IRV has. I'd support an RCV measure with this.

[CaliforniaApproves @CAapproves]

We now have lawn signs! They are very effective in starting conversations with neighbors and increasing awareness of approval voting. Just message us and we will get one to you.
#approvalvoting #voting #vote #california #election #sanfrancisco #losangeles #sandiego

[Seattle Approves @SeattleApproves]

We're committed to making Seattle’s elections as fair and representative as possible. Today, we formed an initiative committee to do just that: https://t.co/pgTYdzxFDD

With your help, Seattleites will vote on this in November, 2022. Get involved: https://t.co/NlDzEWXSzn

[Alan Savage @asavageiv]

@SeattleApproves @ReformSTL @ShowMeIntegrity And 56% is a way better mandate than the 37% they had before!