The Dangers of Ranked Choice Voting and Protecting Parental Rights

On January 30, 2024, Kevin Lundberg and Hans Von Spakovsky joined the show. Details political obstruction of citizen initiatives on parental rights and transgender policies, revealing advocacy groups claim credit for killing measures through their attorneys Exposes how ranked choice voting leads to ballot exhaustion and marginal candidate election, with minority voters disproportionately affected according to Princeton research Citizen Initiatives Face Political Obstruction Start listening at 17:46 – Hour 1 Kevin Lundberg exposes how Colorado’s title board has become a partisan gatekeeping mechanism that blocks citizen initiatives from reaching the ballot. The former state senator describes his work with Protecting Kids Colorado to advance initiatives addressing transgender policies in schools and men competing in women’s sports. Despite bringing nearly 20 different proposals, the title board, stacked with political appointees from the Attorney General and Secretary of State offices, has rejected almost all of them on dubious single-subject grounds. Lundberg reveals that One Colorado, the primary political advocacy group for the homosexual community, publicly claimed credit for killing these initiatives through their attorneys’ involvement with the title board. The documentary “Art Club,” which Lundberg helped produce, tells the story of a 12-year-old girl who was drawn into a secret LGBT club at school under the guise of an after-school art program. House Bill 1071 would force all public schools to play the gender transition game by mandating recognition of non-legal names, often without parental knowledge or consent. “There’s a group called One Colorado, and it’s the primary political advocacy group for the homosexual community. And they said, well, the title board is rejecting this because we have gotten our attorneys involved and we’re responsible for having these killed.” Kevin Lundberg, Former Colorado State Senator Election Integrity Under Attack Start listening at 36:06 – Hour 1 Lundberg details the vulnerability of electronic voting systems, referencing Professor Halderman’s sealed report on Dominion machine hackability that a Georgia judge finally allowed to be made public. The report demonstrates in minute detail how the systems can be breached and vote tallies manipulated. Colorado’s House Bill 1303 from 2013, which Lundberg called the Election Fraud Act on the Senate floor, immediately activated 300,000 inactive voter registrations and mailed ballots to addresses where people likely no longer resided. The state’s automatic voter registration system compounds the problem by registering people who never asked to vote. When one county clerk, Tina Peters, attempted to audit her county’s machines, authorities came down on her aggressively, then rushed to change the law so clerks can no longer access voting equipment. Kim Monson shares that she has received ballots for a family member who moved out of Colorado in 2014, demonstrating that voter rolls remain uncleaned for a decade. Ranked Choice Voting Threatens Electoral Integrity Start listening at 73:49 – Hour 2 Hans Von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation breaks down how ranked choice voting systematically disenfranchises voters through a phenomenon called ballot exhaustion. Under this system, voters must rank all candidates in a race. When their top choices are eliminated in successive rounds of counting, voters who did not rank every candidate see their ballots thrown out entirely. In New York City’s mayoral election, over 140,000 voters had their ballots discar...