Election Transparency improves voter confidence in election results

The suggested amendment would replace Virginia's current round-by-round elimination procedure with a mathematically derived batch elimination process. Although the amendment maintains that the same eventual outcome would result, it would do so at the expense of transparency, public verifiability, and ultimately the public's confidence in the election outcome.

Current regulations allow the public to observe the details by which candidates are eliminated due to each successive round specified in the current Ranked Choice Voting process.

The proposed amendment uses an algorithm that undermines the transparency that is necessary to enhance confidence in the result, particularly among those candidates (and their supporters) who are automatically eliminated by this process.

The Commonwealth of Virginia should be taking steps to ensure that our election processes are MORE transparent, not less.