IN 2023 LOCAL PAPER REFUSED TO PRINT OUR LETTERS. READ NOW!
Really Confusing... Really Costly... Really Complex Voting
Ranked Choice Voting - the claims ... the facts:
● Gives voters more choice and more power (More choices means more confusion)
● Ensures winners earn majority support (Less than 50% of all election administered under RCV have resulted in majority winners.)
● Fosters more civil, issue-oriented campaigns (This does not stop Independent Expenditures, which largely focus on divisive issues)
● Eliminates vote splitting and the spoiler problem (Unproven and is a speculation)
● Promotes more inclusive, diverse and representative elections (Diversity is not a factor in a voting system, it is determined by the candidates who run)
● Reduces polarization and breaks through gridlock (Unproven supposition)
● Is more efficient and cost effective. (Not true, Minnetonka spent over $75,000 more in the 2021 mayoral/at-large races compared to 2017. And that's on top of the staff hired to administer ranked choice voting.)
Our charter commission REJECTED RCV ... in 2020 extensive report!
Our charter commission REJECTED RCV ... in 2020 extensive report!
Our charter commission REJECTED RCV ... in 2020 extensive report!
Minnetonka Charter Commission rejects ranked-choice voting method
Comments from their 7/28/20 meeting:
Concerned about ongoing costs for RCV...
Concerned about a well-funded (outside) group advocating in favor (of RCV)...
Concerned about amending the city charter without a single public forum...
RCV is not better than the system the city already has
(RCV) will cost between $60,000 - $120,000 more...
Former Mayor, Karen Anderson, speaks out
... Ranked-choice voting is costly, complicated, not proven to increase voter turnout and disenfranchises voters through exhausted ballots.
Respected, long-time councilmember, Dick Allendorf, speaks out
... more additional costs to the taxpayer, from $60,000 per year to $116,000 per year. We avoid a primary with ranked-choice voting (we’ve had four primaries in the last 20 years), but the ballots have to be counted by hand, (no machine has been developed to count the ballots), which requires more staff.
Here's what our neighbors are saying!
Our charter commission REJECTED RCV ... in 2020 extensive report!
Our charter commission REJECTED RCV ... in 2020 extensive report!
MANY PEOPLE OPPOSED RCV IN 2020 BUT OVER $144,000 IN OUTSIDE MONEY SHOVED IT IN!
NOW WE CAN
VOTE YES TO REPEAL RCV
AND TELL THESE OUTSIDERS THEIR MONEY IS NO GOOD IN MINNETONKA!
Vote YES to REPEAL RCV Voting in Minnetonka
Don't Buy the Ranked-Choice voting hype in Minnetonka
There is no upside to Ranked Choice Voting
Ranked Choice Voting Drawbacks
Ranked choice is a bad CHOICE!
Our charter commission REJECTED RCV ... in 2020 extensive report!
Ranked choice is a bad CHOICE!
Where's the Evidence Supporting Ranked Choice Voting Claims? Humphrey Institute
Center for The American Experiment
Maine Policy: A False Majority - The Failed Experiment of Ranked Choice Voting
Ranked Choice Voting: Worst Idea Ever
Ranked Choice Voting will not improve democracy - written by Walter Mondale
Minneapolis is adrift, and ranked-choice voting is the culprit
In Our View: Ranked-choice voting CONS outweigh the pros
An example of Ranked Choice Voting
Ranked choice voting backed by rich, out-of-state donors
Here's how COLLUSION can enter Minnetonka elections...
Ranked-choice voting threatens to distort election outcomes
Voting in America should be plain and simple. Ranked choice voting is neither. It is confusing and complex ... it favors elites who know how to work the new and complex system. ~Walter Mondale
~ Walter F. Mondale former MN Senator and US Vice President
YES 2 Repeal RCV in Minnetonka
We are a NONPARTISAN grassroots group of LOCAL, Minnetonka residents. We are Democrats, Independents and Republicans who came together to gather signatures to put the REPEAL of rank choice voting on the November 2023 ballot. We’ve made history in Minnetonka by being the first citizen led group to submit a successful petition. TOGETHER we can make history once again as we all VOTE YES TO REPEAL rank choice voting and reinstate our fair and easy voting system to Minnetonka.
RCV is an expensive scam that's simply not welcome in Minnetonka - let's send it packing!
WE NEED YOUR HELP!! Click below and help us REPEAL rank choice voting!