{"id":18509,"date":"2018-12-01T10:17:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T16:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18509"},"modified":"2018-12-01T10:17:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T16:17:55","slug":"its-a-trifle-disingenuous-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/12\/01\/its-a-trifle-disingenuous-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s A Trifle Disingenuous, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With regard to <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/11\/27\/its-a-trifle-disingenuous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rank-choice<\/a> voting in Maine, a reader writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Preaching to the choir, of course, but his lawsuit is complete bullshit. RCS [RCV] is effectively like holding actual multiple rounds of voting until someone gets a majority, but does it all in one go, saving a ton of money and time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But it&#8217;s true that most American elections are not majority victory, but simple plurality victory. Incidentally, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minneapolis_mayoral_election,_2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minneapolis is using RCV<\/a>, with the most recent race resulting in the election of Jacob Frey after four rounds. I recall no complaints regarding the use of RCV.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Maine electorate chose through referendum to change to RCV (twice!), I don&#8217;t think his lawsuit has a chance of succeeding, but we shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With regard to rank-choice voting in Maine, a reader writes: Preaching to the choir, of course, but his lawsuit is complete bullshit. RCS [RCV] is effectively like holding actual multiple rounds of voting until someone gets a majority, but does it all in one go, saving a ton of money \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/12\/01\/its-a-trifle-disingenuous-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18514,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18509\/revisions\/18514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}