PROP 1: 'Yes on Prop 1' ads are misleading

Newspaper ads and billboards for “Yes” on Proposition 1 are blanketing Idaho. Where is the money for this promotion coming from? The opponents of Proposition 1 believe a lot of it comes from outside Idaho. Big money with the intent of influencing Idaho citizens. I do not want big money dictating this radical change to our voting system. Many people have flocked to Idaho to flee the politics of blue states. They don’t want a new way of voting that resembles where they came from.

Recently, I received a double-sided flyer in the mail wanting me to vote “Yes.” Nowhere did it mention ranked choice voting. Two sides and it only mentioned open primaries. What are they hiding? Rank choice voting is so complicated, I don’t have enough space here to fully explain it. However, it would mean a ballot with multiple pages because with ranked choice voting every race could list up to four candidates that I’d have to rank. It would take a long time to fill in all those bubbles. And since the candidates could list any or no party affiliation without even representing any or no party, I wouldn’t know where they stood on issues.

I don’t trust ranked choice voting because in many cases the candidate with the most votes doesn’t emerge as the winner. Instead, the winner will be the candidate who started off in second or third place and a computer algorithm determined the victor. These ads and flyers are dishonest and misleading! Vote NO on Proposition 1.

MEG SANBORN

Hayden