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Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) has long been sold as the enlightened alternative to those supposedly benighted, partisan Republicans who just can’t handle voters having more choices. So imagine the awkwardness when the Democratic National Committee decides it may want to ban RCV in Democratic presidential primaries.

Yes, the DNC. The Democ...


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The Irvine City Council has made its choice: PSQ Productions gets to continue running Great Park Live, while the city moves forward with a management arrangement that its supporters say protects Irvine from the allegedly onerous demands of Live Nation.

There is just one delicious little problem.

One of the biggest events ever booked at Great Park Live—th...


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There is a wonderful moment in any political debate when an advocate for a controversial reform finally admits what critics have been saying all along.

Paul Haughey, a CalRCV.org board member, recently offered a remarkable defense of Ranked Choice Voting. His basic argument was that critics keep finding examples where RCV doesn’t live up to its promise...


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Richard Nixon Resignation Speech

Today is the anniversary of Richard Nixon’s resignation, which means it is a good day to contemplate one of history’s great missed opportunities:

What if Richard Nixon had Donald Trump’s political machine?

Think about it.

Nixon had the tapes. He had the break-in. He had the cover-up. He had the enemies list. He had the plu...


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Ranked Choice Voting: The Overhyped Mess That Promised Paradise and Delivered ChaosRanked Choice Voting was sold to us like a miracle cure for American elections. No more spoilers! Majority winners guaranteed! Civil campaigns where candidates court second-place love instead of torching each other! Voters finally get their “true preferences” expressed in a glorious multi-round sy...

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