Oregon voters are split on ranked choice voting initiative, while poised to reject rebate plan and accept constitutional

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This year, voters in Oregon have five statewide ballot measures to decide. Two are suggested constitutional changes and three are proposed laws — one referred by the Legislature and two proposed by initiative petition. The measures span a range of subjects, from governance reform to electoral reform and tax fairness. For each one, voters must choose whether to vote “Yes” or “No.” The five measures are:

Measure 115: Allow the Legislature to impeach elected state executives
Measure 116: Establish the Independent Public Service Compensation Commission to determine certain public officials’ salaries
Measure 117: Establish ranked-choice voting (RCV) for federal and state offices
Measure 118: Require rebates to residents from surplus corporate tax revenue
Measure 119: Require cannabis businesses to submit to the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission a signed labor peace agreement between the business and a labor organization with its licensure or renewal application
(Descriptions above are courtesy of Ballotpedia.)

NPI’s research finds that voters favor three of the measures, are mostly against the rebate initiative, and are split almost evenly on the ranked choice voting measure.

In a statewide survey that fielded last week, one of our pollsters asked 716 likely Oregon voters about their voting intention for each of these five measures. A majority of respondents told Public Policy Polling they favor Measure 115, while pluralities favor Measures 116 and 119. A majority opposes Measure 118 and there’s almost perfectly equal division on Measure 117, with a fifth of voters still undecided.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2024/10/oregon-voters-split-on-ranked-choice-voting-initiative-while-poised-to-reject-rebate-plan-and-accept-constitutional-changes.html

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1. If you want progressive government, RCV is the way to go.

Republicans have used 3rd Party voters to siphon off critical votes to win elective majorities, RCV stops the nonsense. Now you can vote for who you want, but also vote for who we need. Republicans hate RCV because they can't win in this election framework.

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2. Yes, at least in progressive or blue States. In purple or

red States, however, the opposite could very well be true. Only Alaska and Maine have RCV right now. It has helped moderate Dems in those two States — which are red/purple.

I’m in Oregon, and on the fence about the ranked/choice measure — it applies only to the nomination and election of federal and Oregon statewide offices. Not sure it actually would help progressives here since ranked choice won’t apply to election of State Legislative offices. If it did, it could help moderate Dems a bit in some Oregon Districts. At same time, Rs here do oppose it.

Gonna sleep on it a day or two. Othereide my ballot is ready to drop off.

Anyone got any convincing arguments that might help me?