Arizona Businesses and Community Organizations Support Ranked Choice Voting
League of Women Voters – Arizona
- Supports changing the present election systems so that they more accurately represent the wishes of voters:
- Adopting the Instant Runoff Voting system [also known as RCV] for single seat races;
- Adopting proportional representation for multi-seat races, specifically Ranked Choice Voting.
- Believes that education of the voting public is important to election systems.
- Supports giving Arizona voters the option of more choice among election systems.
Current and Former Arizona Political Leaders Support Ranked Choice Voting
Bob Worsley
Fmr Republican State Legislator
Brianna Westbrook
AZ Democratic Party Vice Chair
John McCain
Fmr US Senator for AZ
Mark Anderson
Fmr Republican State Legislator
Art Babbott
Fmr Flagstaff City Councilman, Fmr Coconino County Supervisor
Dr. Heather Carter
Fmr Republican State Senator
Ken Clark
Fmr Democrat State Representative
Dr. Matt Heinz
Pima County Supervisor
Virgina Korte
Fmr Scottsdale City Council
Lauren Kuby
Tempe City Councilwoman
Jerry Lewis
Fmr Republican State Senator
"I have already intimated to you the danger of Parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on Geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, & warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party, generally. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled, controuled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy. The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which in different ages & countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders & miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security & repose in the absolute power of an Individual: and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty. Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight) the common & continual mischiefs of the spirit of Party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise People to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the Public Councils and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot & insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence & corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country, are subjected to the policy and will of another."
Ranked Choice Voting is a reasonable tool to restrain or check the parties while securing the efficacy of each person's vote.