To the Editor:
Ranked-choice voting opponents in Bloomington are collecting signatures to put a RCV repeal question on our ballot this November.
I don’t think you should sign their petition. Why should Bloomington taxpayers go back to paying more than $100,000 for an August primary in which less than 10% of voters choose which two candidates will be on the November ballot?
RCV fosters candidate diversity, in both demographics and political views. Since adopting RCV, our city council is more diverse and representative.
In addition to the unanimous 2019 Minnesota Supreme Court decision that RCV is constitutional in Minnesota, every court ruling has found that RCV is in fact one person, one vote. Every voter can choose how many candidates to rank, and every voter has one vote that counts in each round of tabulation.
I’m tired of this anti-democracy group wasting our taxpayer dollars. A lot of money was spent on their failed Minnesota Supreme Court case and now they want to waste more money on this repeal for the purpose of bringing back costly low-turnout primaries. It doesn’t make sense.
If someone asks you to sign the petition, tell them, “No thank you,” and ask your neighbors and friends to do the same.
Lynn Lundeberg
Bloomington