[EM] Unhappy news regarding Burlington

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

On 21.05.2022 23:30, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
> 
> Despite my best efforts, the Vermont governor allowed the Burlington
> charter change, returning RCV to Burlington after 13 years, to become
> law without his signature.  
> 
> Earlier, the House Government Operations committee stripped the explicit
> Hare method from the language of the charter change, leaving the
> specific RCV method up to city council, but I have no doubt it will be Hare.
> 
> I warned them that some future legislature and a different governor will
> pass a statewide RCV into law, and because this gives Hare the leg up,
> someday we will be opaquely transporting 300,000 ballots from every
> corner of the state to Montpelier, just to know who the next governor or
> LG or AG or Sec of State is.  With no redundant way to independently
> check on an election outcome.
> 
> There are some smaller victories.  The Deputy Sec of State, who is
> running for SoS, "gets it".  And I have connected him to Eric Maskin,
> the Nobel laureate and coauthor of The Fairest Vote of All.
> 
> But people are all of stubborn, stupid, craven, and dishonest.
> 
> Licking my wounds after a brusing fight.

Damn. I'm sorry.

-km