SCOT MUSSI: Ranked-Choice Voting Went Down In Flames This Election

How do you waste $15 million? Just ask the folks over at the Make Elections Fair Arizona. Last month, their attempt to force a California-style elections system of ranked-choice voting and jungle primaries went down in flames. Proposition 140 failed miserably with nearly 60% of the electorate voting “No.” And it wasn’t for lack of funding.

With a huge amount of money coming from out of state, the Make Elections Fair Arizona spent at least $15 million — giving them a 20:1 spending advantage. That’s right. For every $1 spent trying to defeat the initiative, the Prop 140 committee spent $20 trying to pass it! And they still lost by a wide margin!

That’s legendary. If any business idea ever failed that badly, it would be banished and never spoken of again. And that is exactly what should happen with ranked- choice voting and its ugly cousin jungle primaries (which was already overwhelmingly rejected by Arizona voters back in 2012).

Prop 140 was one of the worst ideas ever to be proposed in our great state, and it is fitting that it met its demise from a vast majority of Arizonans. Radical leftists tried to hoodwink voters into adopting this failed system. But voters did their homework.

They saw through the misleading and manipulative ads pushing Prop 140. And they said “hell no” to this failed power grab. This is a testament to over a year of hard work educating voters on ranked-choice voting and why these radical schemes must be rejected.