How do you waste $15 million? Just ask the folks at Make Elections Fair Arizona. Last month, they tried to force a California-style election system of ranked-choice voting and jungle primaries. It went up in flames. Proposition 140 failed miserably. almost 60% Voters' vote is “no”. And it wasn't for lack of funds.
A huge amount of money is coming in from outside the state, Make Arizona Elections Fair Spent at least $15 million and gave a 20:1 profitPending Advantage. That's correct. For every $1 spent to defeat this initiative, the Prop 140 committee spent $20 to pass it. Still, we lost by a huge margin!
It's a legend. When a business idea fails this badly, it gets banished and is never talked about again. And that's exactly what should happen (was already happening) with ranked-choice voting and its ugly cousin jungle primaries. overwhelmingly rejected by Arizona voters in 2012). (Related: Bob Ehrlich: Let them eat cake)
Prop. 140 is one of the worst ideas ever proposed in our great state, and it's no surprise that Prop. 140 was repealed by the majority of Arizonans. The radical left tried to trick voters into adopting this failed system. But voters did their homework.
They saw through the misleading and manipulative advertising promoting Proposition 140. And he said “absolutely no” to this failed power grab. This is a testament to over a year of hard work educating voters about ranked voting and why these radical plans must be rejected.
But Arizona wasn't the only one to reject this nonsense. Our state, like several others across the country, has overwhelmingly rejected both ranked-choice voting and jungle primaries.
—Colorado Prop 131 He was defeated with approximately 54% of the vote.
—Idaho Proposal 1 It was rejected with nearly 70% of the votes.
-both CI-126 and CI-127 He lost in Montana.
—Oregon State Major 117 He was defeated with about 60% of the vote.
—South Dakota Amendment H It was rejected with over 65% of the votes.
—Question 3 (Nevada) He was defeated with approximately 54% of the vote.
In addition to this, Missouri's Seventh Amendment affirmatively prohibits ranked-choice voting. passed It received almost 70 percent of the votes.
So what was the cost of all this loss? Nationwide, the amount spent by groups promoting ranked-choice voting. Approximately $100 million In seven states, it was found to fail in all states. Can you imagine spending $100 million with no sign of winning?
Obviously people have spoken. Ranked voting and jungle primaries would be a disastrous transformation of the electoral system.
No one wants it. It's time for California to put its destructive policies and institutions on its side.
Mr. Scotland Musi is the President of the Arizona Free Enterprise Club, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing a pro-growth limited government agenda in Arizona.
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