October, 2018 If we had used Ranked Choice Voting in the 2016 presidential election Donald Trump might have won the popular vote as well as the Electoral College. My friends are shocked when I tell them that even so I am in favor of using Ranked Choice in presidential elections– if it is combined…
Category: Voting and Elections
Picking the winner could win you money
June, 2018 I think I feel the same way about gambling as the typical NRA member feels about guns: I don’t want the government to stop me from having what I want. In fact, I think there is more justification for banning guns than there is for banning gambling. Guns kill. Gambling is largely victimless….
Changes to the Electoral College could make all votes count
March, 2018 Former (Republican) Governor, Bill Weld, who ran for Vice President in 2016 on the Libertarian ticket, is suing the state of Massachusetts. He is working in concert with the League of United Latin American Citizens, which has filed similar suits in Texas, California and South Carolina. These suits claim that the “winner take…
Voting by mail is easier, cheaper, more secure – and people like it
October, 2016 An old friend in San Diego writes: “Can’t wait for the election to be over. We vote by absentee ballot (Our address has no polling place so we automatically receive a mail-in ballot; but anyone in California can request an absentee ballot, even permanently). We have 17 statewide props and 16 local ones…
There is a better way to vote
October 2016 An old friend in San Diego writes: “Can’t wait for the election to be over. We vote by absentee ballot. (Our address has no polling place so we automatically receive a mail-in ballot; but anyone in California can request an absentee ballot, even permanently.) We have 17 statewide propositions and 16 local ones…