Senator Mitt Romney shares support for ranked choice voting
In remarks yesterday at Georgetown’s Institute of Politics and Public Service, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) expressed his support for ranked choice voting, saying that “the evidence suggests it would be a superior way to proceed.”
Below is a lightly edited transcript of Romney’s remarks:
“[Ranked choice voting] sounds good at this stage. It looks good on paper. I like the results that came out of Alaska and Maine. And so if it continues to perform well… I think it makes a lot of sense.
“We’ve got to find a way to nominate people from the two parties that are more representative of the country at large. And what happens is people don’t vote in primaries, so we select nominees with about 10 percent of the voters in a party voting for them.
“And by the way, the extremes, the rabids, the wingnuts in respective parties, they try and figure out ways to get even fewer people to participate. They try and stop primaries altogether and nominate through conventions, where only a few hundred people are going to decide. Or to have caucuses where just a small number will decide, where the more extreme will go out and spend a whole evening, a whole night, in a meeting to decide who the nominee is.
“Process does make a difference here, and… at this stage the evidence suggests [ranked choice voting] would be a superior way to proceed and it’s going to be up to states to adopt it.”
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