The Massachusetts Republican State Committee opposes ranked-choice voting.
The committee announced Friday that it voted unanimously Thursday night to oppose a Nov. 3 statewide ballot referendum that would change how people vote for candidates for elective office.
A ranked-choice voting system goes against the Massachusetts Constitution, which has for 240 years held that “the person with the ‘highest number of votes’ is the winner of an election,” the GOP said in a news release.
“One person, one vote. That’s the bedrock of American elections,” Massachusetts Republican Party Chairman Jim Lyons said in a statement. “If ranked-choice voting had existed in 1860, Abraham Lincoln would not have been elected president, that’s a fact.”
The GOP resolution said older voters may find ranked-choice voting confusing.
Proponents say ranked-choice voting could make it possible for voters to more clearly express their preferences and not be worried about which candidate has the better chance of winning.
If the ranked-choice ballot question passes in November, elections in Massachusetts will be different. If there are more than two candidates on the ballot, voters will rank the candidates in order of preference rather than voting for just one.
If a candidate gets more than 50% of the vote, that candidate wins. If no candidate breaks 50%, the lowest-finishing candidate is eliminated and all the people who voted for that candidate as their first choice get their second-place votes counted instead. The process continues until a candidate breaks 50%.
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