The confusing process of ranked-choice voting creates the possibility that a voter's ballot will be trashed, and the removal of safeguards against noncitizen voting increases the likelihood that an eligible voter's ballot could be canceled out by an illegal vote.
It is a purposeful push, since RCV systemically favors left-leaning candidates and harms conservatives - even in cases when a majority of voters actually vote for conservatives.
With ranked-choice voting, as The Federalist's Shawn Fleetwood explained, "Voters rank candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives a majority of votes in the first round, the last-place finisher is eliminated, and his voters are reallocated to the voter's second-choice candidate. The process continues until one candidate receives a majority of votes." RCV has been pushed since the '90s by leftist groups such as FairVote, which also seeks to abolish the Electoral College and replace it with a straight popular vote scheme.
Virginia SB428 would potentially disenfranchise voters by allowing RCV to be adopted in elections for "Any local or constitutional office." The voting method not only enables candidates to win elections even if they did not receive the most votes in the first tally of ballots, but it also creates the opportunity for ballot exhaustion, which happens when a voter only ranks one candidate on his ballot and that candidate is eliminated in the tally.
Even a single noncitizen vote disenfranchises all Americans by diluting their votes.
HB26 invites voter fraud, including from noncitizen voting, by adding difficult-to-verify IDs from nongovernmental sources as valid identification to be able to vote.
Unless Youngkin vetoes the bill, it will allow voters to provide "Any valid identification card containing a photograph of the voter and issued by any private entity that is licensed or certified, in whole or in part, by" a state health or social service agency.
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