National organization spokesperson for IRV purveys misinformation, figuring people in Burlington won't know the difference? Local news reporter is told repeatedly THAT IS NOT TRUE when she asks a well-researched question. Advocates use examples like buying skim milk, and choosing chocolate or jellybeans, and to explain IRV -- like people are stupid and they need to dumb-down the explanation. News reporter asks, what do you mean by a complete ballot -- easy one, wouldn't you think? The worst obfuscation creating confusion comes when advocates try to explain how a person who got 29% of first-place votes ended up mayor. The regrettable outcome of this shell game is low voter confidence, and financial disaster for the city.
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"IRV Debate Question - Disenfranchisement"
There was absolutely ZERO "disenfranchisement" in the last Burlington Mayoral election. What's going on now is people simply expressing sour grapes about how they voted as it relates to the final outcome of the election.
"Advocates use examples like buying skim milk, and choosing chocolate or jellybeans"
...because those are real-life examples of people ranking a series of choices in their everyday lives. People do this literally dozens of times per day...it's not "complex" at all.
"The worst obfuscation creating confusion comes when advocates try to explain how a person who got 29% of first-place votes ended up mayor."
Once again, you anti-IRV shills can whine all that you want to about first-place vote percentages BEFORE any instant runoffs occurred, but that's not the whole story & you know it!
"The regrettable outcome of this shell game is low voter confidence, and financial disaster for the city"
...which is a veiled way of trying to turn this vote into a referendum on Bob Kiss, which even Decelles has admitted at a previous forum that it isn't!
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