{"id":6516,"date":"2020-06-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=6516"},"modified":"2020-06-09T08:42:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T12:42:08","slug":"one-week-to-get-rcv-on-the-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/10\/one-week-to-get-rcv-on-the-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"One week to get RCV on the ballot!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Volunteers from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voterchoice2020.org\">Voter Choice for Massachusetts<\/a>, the Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) campaign, made history last fall when they submitted <strong>111,000 certified signatures<\/strong> to the Secretary of the Commonwealth; the most ever by a Massachusetts ballot initiative campaign. <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Massachusetts Pirate Party supports RCV<\/strong> and we are proud to be part of this historic effort to give a stronger voice and more choice to voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) allows voters to rank the candidates on the ballot by order of their preference. RCV requires the winner to win with a majority of the vote rather simply the most votes. It will ensure that Pirate Party candidates won&#8217;t be labeled spoilers and will help us and other third parties gain voters and supporters. It is one step to bring true multiparty democracy to Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have one more week to earn RCV a place on the November 3, 2020 ballot and the campaign must submit a second round of <strong>13,374 valid signatures by June 17<\/strong>. The campaign kicked off the signature drive on May 6th and has been going strong getting thousands of MA voters to <a href=\"http:\/\/sign.voterchoice2020.org\">sign the RCV petition<\/a> electronically from home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope you will take a minute to <strong>sign the RCV petition right now<\/strong> by <a href=\"http:\/\/sign.voterchoice2020.org\">clicking here<\/a>, and please share this URL with your friends and family (<a href=\"http:\/\/sign.voterchoice2020.org\">sign.voterchoice2020.org<\/a>). Nothing like this has ever been done before, but with your help we can make history together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesokeefe.org\/\">James O&#8217;Keefe<\/a>. Image is released into the Public Domain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers from Voter Choice for Massachusetts, the Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) campaign, made history last fall when they submitted 111,000 certified signatures to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,32,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-reform","category-slider","category-take-action"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VoterChoiceRallyWide.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-1H6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6516"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6527,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions\/6527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}