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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.

Nov 2, 2026

15:15
Jason, tell us how you did it.
15:19
Well, the first and most important thing to keep in mind is who is behind Rank Choice Voting.
15:25
That's a big tell.
15:26
All of the money behind Rank Choice Voting is coming from the left.
15:29
It's coming from big left-wing mega donors like George Soros and his friends.
15:34
It's an idea that has been created by folks on the left.
15:38
And of course, they're going to be pushing an idea that's going to help the left.
17:39
Tell us about some of the horror stories in ranked choice voting so people realize it's a siren song.
7:51
Can you explain how that works and why the ranked choice system makes something like this more possible?
7:58
Yeah, so Alaska uses ranked choice voting, and it's a fundamentally different type of an election than most people are familiar with.
8:04
So what you do in a regular election, obviously, you vote for one candidate in a race and then you move on.
8:09
But with ranked choice voting, they're asking you to rank multiple candidates.
8:13
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.
8:21
But it only can do so by manufacturing that majority by going through and counting first place votes.
8:28
And if nobody gets over 50 percent of a majority, then you eliminate the poor performing candidates.
9:50
So can you elaborate on that for us?
2:44
But I wish that they could because there are some really good people in California who are suffering under this stupidity.
2:53
Well, I think that is unfortunately very true, and I think that the frustration out in California has really started to boil over.
3:00
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.
3:11
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.
3:18
And then, of course...
3:19
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.
3:30
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.
5:20
It's infuriating, and it's a giant insult.
7:15
How so?
7:16
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.
7:35
And now we're watching the money pour in hand over fist.
7:37
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.
8:00
They're saying that they have to stop the MAGA power grab, that they have to, uh, to stop Donald Trump.
8:04
That's really what the message is all about.
8:06
It's all about stopping Trump, and, uh, I think that's actually persuasive, unfortunately, for a fair number of folks here in Virginia.
10:00
If it is not overturned, if this is voted into effect, does this set a, a dangerous precedent for the state?

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