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Jason Sneed
Jason Snead, Executive Director of the Honest Elections Project and its action arm, HEP Action; former senior policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation.
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"Democratic Democracy" (FTTxJT Mon 110226 hr3)
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15:19Jason SneedGUEST
Well, the first and most important thing to keep in mind is who is behind Rank Choice Voting.
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15:38Jason SneedGUEST
And of course, they're going to be pushing an idea that's going to help the left.

Joe ThomasHOST
Tell us about some of the horror stories in ranked choice voting so people realize it's a siren song.
Wired In: Alaska Election Bombshell & The GOP's Silent Voters
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Cabot PhillipsHOST
Can you explain how that works and why the ranked choice system makes something like this more possible?
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7:58Jason SneedGUEST
Yeah, so Alaska uses ranked choice voting, and it's a fundamentally different type of an election than most people are familiar with.
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8:04Jason SneedGUEST
So what you do in a regular election, obviously, you vote for one candidate in a race and then you move on.
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8:13Jason SneedGUEST
And the whole shtick about ranked choice voting is that it claims that it will deliver candidates that win majority support within a particular community.
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8:21Jason SneedGUEST
But it only can do so by manufacturing that majority by going through and counting first place votes.
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8:28Jason SneedGUEST
And if nobody gets over 50 percent of a majority, then you eliminate the poor performing candidates.
NC House Committee Advances Election Integrity Bill with Executive Director at Honest Elections Project Action Jason Snead
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Faune RigginHOST
But I wish that they could because there are some really good people in California who are suffering under this stupidity.
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2:53Jason SneadGUEST
Well, I think that is unfortunately very true, and I think that the frustration out in California has really started to boil over.
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3:00Jason SneadGUEST
In fact, they actually have an initiative that's going on the ballot this November that would require both voter ID and proof of citizenship in order to be able to vote in California at elections.
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3:11Jason SneadGUEST
That's not a silver bullet, but the fact that that is being put before the voters in California, I think, speaks to that frustration.
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3:19Jason SneadGUEST
For anybody who is living in other states, even conservative states, I've got to tell you, there is a lot more that could be done by our states to ensure that non-citizens are not voting.
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3:30Jason SneadGUEST
In fact, in Missouri, just this past legislative session, we were working with a lawmaker, Ben Brown, to get a much stronger proof of citizenship requirement.
Round Two Of Iran Negotiations & Virginia Votes On Redistricting | 4.21.26
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7:16Jason SneedGUEST
Well, right now Virginians are h- are going to the polls to decide whether or not, uh, the state is going to have a, uh, a 6-5 map that more or less reflects, uh, the current breakdown of the Virginia electorate or a pretty radical gerrymander that would turn that into a 10-1 map and flip four seats from Republicans to Democrats.
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7:37Jason SneedGUEST
We're at almost $65 million that have been poured into this special election to flip those seats, and the result of this, again, is going to be a net pickup of at least four seats in Congress for the Democrats, which, uh, follows what they did in California last year with Prop 50, this, uh, attempt to gerrymander these states into, uh, into essentially guaranteed slots for Democrats in Congress.
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8:00Jason SneedGUEST
They're saying that they have to stop the MAGA power grab, that they have to, uh, to stop Donald Trump.
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8:06Jason SneedGUEST
It's all about stopping Trump, and, uh, I think that's actually persuasive, unfortunately, for a fair number of folks here in Virginia.

John BickleyHOST
If it is not overturned, if this is voted into effect, does this set a, a dangerous precedent for the state?