It's time to level the playing field and advance representative democracy with the Ranked Choice Voting Act. Our current election system denies many people the representation they deserve.
The American people want a Congress that functions effectively and is truly of, by, and for the people. Our current political system is broken when career politicians and political machines can manipulate districts for their own benefit, giving voters few choices and limiting new voices in government. When 9 in 10 incumbents can win re-election without needing to earn their seats, that’s not democracy.
It's time to level the playing field and advance representative democracy with the Ranked Choice Voting Act. The proposed Act ensures all voices are heard, and elected leaders are more accountable to the people.
The proposal reforms our political system by introducing a national solution to address issues in all 50 states related to redistricting, representation, and voting rights. We need a solution that:
- Empowers voters and ensures every voter has a meaningful impact on elections by giving voters the best chance of having their vote help elect someone who will represent their voice.
- Ends the cycle of gerrymandering by repealing and replacing the 1967 mandate for single-winner districts with multi-winner districts elected using ranked choice voting.
- Ends the disconnect between voting and election outcomes, because candidates favored by a majority of voters will win a majority of seats.
- Breaks up one-party monopolies in every state – districts would elect three, four or five members and no district would be controlled entirely by one political party.
- Encourages more diverse representatives, including independents, third parties, urban Republicans, rural Democrats, Rockefeller Republicans, Reagan Democrats, and so on, who can serve as bridge-builders in Congress.
- Fosters greater opportunities for the election of women and fairer representation for people of color.
- Creates districts that are compact, contiguous, and continuous with political boundaries, and which comply with the Constitution, Voting Rights Act, and other federal laws.
- Replaces polarization with collaborative, all-partisan policy-making because nearly every representative would share a district with other representatives with different views.
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NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote! Michael H. Drucker
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