Guest column: Proposed bill to outlaw ranked choice voting disrespects voters
Memphis voters approved the use of Ranked Choice Voting in three separate referendums: once in 2008 and twice in 2018. (Jim Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Earle J. Fisher
Rev. Earle Fisher is the pastor at Abyssinian Baptist Church with a PhD from the University of Memphis.
Mike Carpenter
Mike Carpenter served as a Republican member of the Shelby County Commission from 2006-2011.
“RCV makes elections fairer, faster, easier and cheaper, reducing barriers to participation by allowing voters to go to the polls just once rather than having to come back a second time for a runoff election” but the Tennessee Legislature is considering a bill that would outlaw it.
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