RCV BAN TALKING POINTS

• Preemptively banning RCV is red-tape and unnecessary. Legislation would be required to authorize RCV anyway and this bill would simply be repealed if that legislation were successful. 
• Banning RCV takes away local control and bars local governments from exploring RCV as an option
• RCV is not complicated: 85% of Alaska voters and 81% of Utah voters said RCV is simple to use
• People like using RCV: When first used: in Maine, 61% support keeping or expanding; 66% Minneapolis; 77% in New York; and 94% in Santa Fe.
• RCV has growing support in America with 6 in 10 Americans now supporting RCV and 25 state legislatures considering this year, including Kansas, Kentucky, Wyoming and Montana.
• RCV is nonpartisan, has benefited both Republicans and Democrats who appeal to a majority of voters
• RCV builds majority consensus and support among voters
• RCV increases voter turnout and engagement
• RCV empowers candidates
• RCV disincentives negative campaigning and incentivizes coalition and cooperation
• RCV eliminates “vote-splitting” among similar candidates and spoilers
• RCV turns multiple runoff elections (currently proposed via LC0298/0299) into one instant runoff  
• RCV has been successfully used statewide in Maine and Alaska, in 59 cities, and is used for military and overseas voters in 6 states.