@sarawolk said in Simple anti-chicken modifications to score:
Unite Oregon is listed as a top donor for NextUP and NextUP is listed as the top donor on the anti-STAR mailer that just dropped in people's mailboxes yesterday. They are also doing anti-STAR Voting robocalls to voters.
From my Top Four Final Five Article:
The Purpose of Top Four and Top Five Elections
Unite America is the leading proponent of “Top Four Primaries”. From their website: “Unite America is a philanthropic venture fund that invests in nonpartisan election reform to foster a more representative and functional government.”
Unite America was founded in 2014 as the Centrist Project. According to founding board member and current Executive Director, Nick Troiano “It sought to elect a handful of independent Senate candidates who could form a “fulcrum” to control the balance of power and leverage their influence to advance bipartisan solutions.”
This explains the advantages for independent candidates. (I previously mentioned the listing of each candidate's voter registration, but not party nominations on the RCV ballots, which helps independent candidates by confusing party supporters.) It is also a brilliant political strategy. A small coalition of unaffiliated candidates gains great power without the bother of forming a political party. Be very careful about which independent candidates you vote for.
They are using RCV in an effort to elect centrist candidates. Could it be that they are using RCV because they think it will fail in their favor?