FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 4, 2025
Arlington, VA – The Kansas Senate today passed Senate Bill 6 to ban the disastrous practice of Ranked-Choice Voting in the state.
Importantly, SB 6 stipulates that “[n]o form of ranked-choice voting method shall be used in determining the election or nomination of any candidate to any federal, state, county or other municipal elected office.”
National Chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative and former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued the following statement:
“Members of the Federal and State Affairs Committee, Chair Mike Thompson, and the bill’s champions should be applauded for banning Ranked-Choice Voting in Kansas. Make no mistake, Left-wing megadonors are financing a nationwide campaign to promote the disastrous voting scheme intended to dramatically push our politics to the Left, to elevate Left-leaning politicians, and to weaken political parties to their benefit by disenfranchising voters.
“We urge the House to help avert an epidemic of disenfranchised voters whose ballots no longer are counted fairly and equally by passing SB 6 without delay. Now more than ever we need to protect the right to vote in free and fair elections voters can trust, but the Ranked-Choice Voting scheme does precisely the opposite. It is an Election Integrity wrecking ball, is never workable and should always be prohibited.”
Ranked-Choice Voting, also known as ‘Instant-Runoff Voting’ and ‘Preferential Voting,’ is a scheme that has made voting more confusing and difficult, reduced transparency, and put confidence and certainty at risk when implemented in public elections, with horror stories in Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, New York, Utah, Virginia and elsewhere.
As designed, Ranked-Choice Voting manufactures a majority winner by routinely ‘exhausting’—or throwing out—thousands of ballots so candidates need only win a majority of the remaining votes, not a majority of all votes cast.
- Provided here is a comprehensive list of RCV horror stories.
- Read Chairman Cuccinelli’s Senate testimony, or view our fact sheet.
- Visit StopRCV.com to learn more.
The Election Transparency Initiative, a partnership between the American Principles Project (APP) and Susan B. Anthony (SBA) Pro-Life America, was organized to combat federal H.R. 1 and H.R. 4 legislation and advocate for state-based election reforms that voters can trust.
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