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#11806082 at 2020-11-27 12:37:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15069: We Have The Servers - Coomer Edition
JAMES and Kathryn Murdoch RANKED CHOICE VOTING Pt1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kathryn-murdoch-election-reform/2020/08/31/d3945772-e943-11ea-bc79-834454439a44_story.html
The name Murdoch is probably not one that you associate with compromise and bipartisanship in politics.
But it is a name that both opens doors and makes people a little wary of Kathryn Murdoch. She is a daughter-in-law of conservative media baron Rupert Murdoch, whose international empire of news outlets includes Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post.
Kathryn Murdoch, 48, is married to James, the younger of Rupert Murdoch's two sons, who in July abruptly resigned his seat on the board of family-controlled News Corp because of what he claimed were "disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company's news outlets and certain other strategic decisions."
Her surname "makes it hard for people to quantify who and what I stand for, and that, for me I think, is mostly an advantage," she told me recently. "Because then they have to listen to the substance of what you're saying."
What she has been saying is that the real problem with politics may not be the people we elect. It may be the way we go about electing them.
On Wednesday, she and a group of like-minded "political philanthropists" will convene a Zoom meeting in which they hope to enlist other wealthy people to start putting their resources into reforming a system that currently fosters polarization and rewards those who hew to the extremes.
Among the co-hosts of the private gathering are Texas billionaires Laura and John Arnold; Marc Merrill, a founder of the video game developer Riot Games; and Kent Thiry, former chief executive of DaVita, a leading provider of kidney dialysis.
It is being organized by the nonpartisan group Unite America, which says upward of 140 people have signed up to attend the session. The group did not disclose the guest list, but said it includes major philanthropists, executives of large companies and former elected officials.
Unite America advocates a number of reforms it claims could end what it calls "the doom loop" of political dysfunction. Among them: turning the job of redistricting over to independent commissions, rather than allowing gerrymandering by politicians; nonpartisan primaries in which the top two finishers, regardless of their party affiliations, go to the general election; and ranked-choice voting, in which voters do not pick just one candidate but rank names on the ballot by preference. Together, these changes could bypass entrenched political structures and make elections more responsive to the broader interests of ordinary voters.