Longmont, CO set to vote on ranked choice voting in November - FairVote

Ranked choice voting is just rearranging the deck chairs on a sinking ship of donor controlled puppets.

The problem is not the mathematical counting method but the systemic lack of candidates worth ranking at all. Changing the ballot format does nothing to purge the corporate influence that vetting both parties effectively requires. Voters are being sold a procedural gimmick to distract from their total lack of genuine political agency.

Your favorite candidates are still just different flavors of the same establishment rot.

Ranked choice voting is a new coat of paint on a house with a rotting foundation.

Longmont is debating ballot mechanics while corporate donors still write the checks that decide who runs in the first place. RCV lets you rank your oppressors in order of preference without changing who owns the candidates. FairVote celebrates procedural wins because procedural wins are safe — they don't threaten the donor class, the landlord lobby, or the developers shaping Longmont's growth.

Changing how you count votes changes nothing if money still decides who's on the ballot.

Ranked choice voting is a shiny wrench thrown into a well-running civic engine.

Longmont is being asked to replace the plain rule voters know with a transfer machine for mayor and City Council by 2029. That risks public trust, because legitimacy depends on citizens seeing how winners are chosen without calculators, rounds, and exhausted ballots. FairVote sells novelty as fairness, but stable local government rests on habits people understand and accept.

When election rules grow opaque, authority grows brittle.