At the May ACRP Meeting our brave delegates joined the National Republicans in a Resolution against Ranked Choice Voting. This is after we have seen first hand the destruction of our freedom of choice with all the voter and election fraud it brings on any county or state that implements it.
TVR is proud to support the ACRP’s resolution as follows:
RESOLVE TO ELIMINATE THE INFERIOR VOTING PROCESS KNOWN AS RANKED-CHOICE VOTING
IN ALAMEDA COUNTY OF CALIFORNIA
WHEREAS, the Republican National Committee (RNC) meeting in Dana Point, California on January 27, 2023 unanimously passed a Resolution: "Officially Oppose Ranked-Choice Voting Across the Country and called on Congress, state legislators, and voters to oppose Ranked-Choice Voting in every locality and level of government and return elections to easier systems that worked for centuries for fair and transparent elections”; and
WHEREAS, the California Republican Party (CAGOP) meeting in Sacramento, California on March 12, 2023 unanimously passed a Resolution, which was authored and submitted to the CAGOP by Mark Zulim, Alameda County Republican Party: “The CAGOP opposes the use of Ranked-Choice Voting in California elections and is committed to increasing voter's confidence in California's election process through easier and transparent systems that worked since California was founded”; and
WHEREAS, Ranked-Choice Voting is now being rejected because it increases election distrust, voter suppression, and disenfranchisement, eliminates the historic political party system, and put elections in the hands of expensive election schemes that increase costs for taxpayers, and depend exclusively on confusing technology and unelected bureaucrats to manage it; and
WHEREAS, after more than a decade the Ranked-Choice Voting experiment has failed nationally causing much voter frustration and disenfranchisement and cannot be ignored any longer and even egregious is the fact it has not fully met the fundamental right of “one-person one-vote” in that a very high rate of what is called “exhausted ballots” and “suspended ballots” are always present, which means many votes are not counted within the final tabulation in determining the winner; and
WHEREAS, hundreds of municipalities and counties nationally, including in California, have wasted millions of dollars to educate the public in how Ranked-Choice Voting works, yet they continue to experience an unacceptable and very high rate of ballot errors again and again, and the full negative effects of voter disenfranchisement caused by the use of Ranked-Choice Voting is immeasurable nationally, including within Alameda County; and
WHEREAS, in California with the most recent fiasco found in the Oakland, Alameda County for the November 8, 2022 races where numerous errors were noted causing several elections after their certification to undergo costly corrections, which included the overturning of the results for the City of Oakland, Oakland Unified School District, District #4 and now costly legal suits are pending; and now
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Alameda County Republican Party of California opposes the use of Ranked-Choice Voting in its Districts and is committed to increasing voter’s confidence in the election process and is committed to work with each municipality, all levels of government, various groups of all parties, and all citizens to: educate, train, and directly oppose inferior voting schemes such as Ranked-Choice Voting.
Submitted by: Mark Zulim, Alternate to Alameda County Republican Party and CAGOP Delegate, on April 24, 2023 (v1)