[Lnc-business] While talking about alternative voting

[Justin O'Donnell]

LPNH has had this as a legislative focus for a long while, and have been 
pushing Bills for years to implement Approval Voting in NH.
The Center for Election Sciences is also engaged in non partisan efforts 
to push Approval Voting across the country, I regularly communicate with 
them and aide with their lobbying efforts in New England.

LPMA has been working with Fairvote to implement Ranked Choice Voting in 
Massachusetts, and Maine recently got RCV implemented for partisan 
elections.

I'm incredibly partial to approval voting myself from a mathematical 
standpoint and the applications of Arrows Theorem of Voting Fairness, 
and have actually actively opposed RCV in NH because of the bills that 
have been submitted included replacing our multi member districts (up to 
30+ candidates for 11 seats) with ranked party slate voting. But I 
recognize NH has a very unique electoral system that is especially set 
up to make RCV incompatible, but Approval Voting the ideal.

This IS a state by state issue though, and I know North Dakota is 
starting to see traction with Approval voting due to the efforts of CES. 
And I would support LP Involvement in the efforts.

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Yours in Liberty,

Justin O'Donnell
LNC Region 8 Representative
LPNH Alternate- LNC Platform Committee
Chair- LPNH Platform Committee
Candidate for US Congress, NH-2
www.odonnell2018.org

On 2018-10-02 12:33, Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business wrote:
> I've become convinced we have a partially misplaced focus - ie ballot
>    access and running candidates which is an endless merry-go-round
>    repeated for decades now.
> 
>    We should be adding a third prong nationally and that is getting
>    alternate voting practices - I believe that is perhaps more 
> important
>    (but at least equally important) as the other two and this should 
> start
>    to be a regular focus of our goals along with more strategic 
> alliances.
> 
>    We had our informal goals discussion - I ask for members to now join 
> me
>    in calling for an e-meeting to set them.
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