The vocabulary is important. And the only people pushing “Ranked Choice” hare from Fairvote, and they mean RCV.
They want you to use the term “Ranked Choice” so that they can push RCV. That’s it. They know damn well that it’s a deeply flawed system, and don’t care, because they set themselves up as the Ranked Choice experts. They actually consult on elections using their system, and have done their own recounts that once changed the outcome of an election (30 days after the wrong candidate was sworn in).
So no. Don’t use vocabulary from a group pushing for something bad.
As to the problems of RCV getting more press as more people hear about it, that’s from pushback. See, Fairvote, the people who push RCV have a tendency to outright lie about the system, and then people like me have to spend hours explaining to people that RCV is a deeply broken system.
As the old phrase goes, “A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”
The solution, then, don’t spread the lie. Don’t pretend that RCV is anything but a bad system.
Say STAR or Approval or whatever system you really want to push for. Don’t be lazy and give Fairvote more of a lead than they already have.
The vocabulary is important. And the only people pushing “Ranked Choice” hare from Fairvote, and they mean RCV.
They want you to use the term “Ranked Choice” so that they can push RCV. That’s it. They know damn well that it’s a deeply flawed system, and don’t care, because they set themselves up as the Ranked Choice experts. They actually consult on elections using their system, and have done their own recounts that once changed the outcome of an election (30 days after the wrong candidate was sworn in).
So no. Don’t use vocabulary from a group pushing for something bad.
As to the problems of RCV getting more press as more people hear about it, that’s from pushback. See, Fairvote, the people who push RCV have a tendency to outright lie about the system, and then people like me have to spend hours explaining to people that RCV is a deeply broken system.
As the old phrase goes, “A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”
The solution, then, don’t spread the lie. Don’t pretend that RCV is anything but a bad system.
Say STAR or Approval or whatever system you really want to push for. Don’t be lazy and give Fairvote more of a lead than they already have.