The Voters’ Army 2026 Goals

Two Splendid and Doable Opportunities

BTR-Score Voting

The Montana Plan to Stop Corporate Campaign Spending

We can make a huge difference!

BTR-Score Voting

Superior to Plurality Voting and Ranked Choice Voting

Traditional choose one plurality voting is unfair to voters, third-parties, and independent candidates. It has a fatal problem:

You can only rank one candidate as better than the other candidates. If your favorite candidate is third party or independent, a vote for your favorite will cause your preferred major party candidate to lose your vote. This can help a major party candidate you dislike. Because voters fear wasting their votes, independent and third party candidates do not have a fair chance. Two party rule is locked in. This is called favorite betrayal. It is a problem in every plurality election with over two candidates.

Because we can only vote for one candidate, support for third party and independent candidates is always under reported. This harms third party efforts to recruit members and candidates, raise funds, generate publicity, and win elections.

For these reasons, social choice experts rank plurality voting at the bottom of the heap. Only dictatorship and random choice are lower.

Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) allows you to rank every candidate. This is an enormous improvement over plurality voting, but RCV is susceptible to spoilers. Sarah Palin, through no fault of her own, spoiled the chances of fellow Republican Nick Begich, electing Democrat Mary Peltola in a 2022 congressional election. The ballots clearly showed that Begich would have beaten both Peltola and Palin one on one. Eventually, a Democrat will lose an RCV election in the same way.

BTR-Score

BTR-Score (Score Voting with a Bottom Two Runoff) has all the advantages of Ranked Choice Voting, but it is not susceptible to spoilers.

BTR-Score lets you rate each candidate. Give your favorite candidate a 10 and the worst candidate a zero. Rate the other candidates in comparison. Ties are allowed. Each candidate’s total score is determined. An instant runoff tournament is seeded with the scores. The highest total score earns the top seed; the candidate with the lowest score is the bottom seed.

In the tournament’s first contest, the candidates with the two lowest scores compete. The candidate preferred on most ballots wins. In the next contest, that winner goes against the next lowest candidate. This continues until a surviving candidate meets the highest seed; that contest elects the winner.

If you rated Candidate B a 7, and Candidate C a 3, your vote will go to Candidate B when B and C meet in the tournament. If you gave B and C equal scores, your vote does not help or harm either candidate.

As a Condorcet method, BTR-Score will always elect the candidate who can beat all other candidates one-on-one. In the rare election with no “beats all” winner, BTR-Score will elect a deserving winner, the champion of the tournament. Ramon Llull proposed the “beats all” concept in 1299. Nicolas Caritat, the Marquis de Condorcet, popularized “beats all” methods in the late 18th century.

BTR-Score is as fair and reliable as it gets for single-winner voting methods. Because it is a Condorcet method, we know exactly what it will do; it needs no additional testing.

The only problem with BTR-Score is that nobody knows about it. It has been discussed on the Voting Theory Forum, a few Reddit posts and our website, that’s it. I am not aware of any government election using BTR-Score.

Defenders of the status quo will say that we cannot use BTR-Score in American elections because BTR-Score has not been used American elections. They support plurality voting because it's flaws protect the dominant party in each state and district.

Our Goal

Introduce BTR-Score to the world by persuading a government to use it in their elections.

Our Target – Denver Colorado

Why Denver? On Monday, August 11th, 2025, the Denver City Council came within one vote of passing an ordinance that would have put Ranked Choice Voting to a vote of the citizens of Denver. BTR-Score is at least one vote better than RCV.

This is doable! We have an opportunity to improve democracy in Denver and America. Denver is a world-famous city that is our home. A victory in Denver will put BTR-Score on the national map. We need members in Denver to contact their representatives on the city council in the new year.

the Montana Plan to Stop Corporate Campaign Spending

The Montana Plan will eliminate the power corporations currently have to make campaign contributions.

State governments create corporations and determine what powers corporations have. This is well established by case law.^[1] Under current law, most states, including Montana, give corporations the same powers as individual persons. Corporate officers also enjoy corporate immunity; this places corporations above natural persons.

The Montana Plan, also called the Transparent Election Initiative (TEI) will eliminate the power of any corporation, including out-of-state corporations, to spend money in Montana politics, including state, local and federal elections.

The Citizens United Supreme Court decision gave corporations the right to make campaign contributions, but it did not give them the power to do so. Only state governments can grant powers to corporations. The states can limit those powers as they see fit. The Montana Plan does not cancel or reverse Citizens United; it makes Citizens United irrelevant in Montana.

To learn the legal details of how this can be done, please read the annotated version of the TEI initiative. It is clear, concise and revolutionary.

The Montana Plan is Going Viral

The Montana Plan is sexier than BTR-Score. People have been waiting for this opportunity since the 2010 Citizens United decision. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (a leading candidate for governor) stated in a Denver Post op-ed “Colorado should join Montana and advance a similar concept to change Colorado law.”

Our role is to contact candidates for state office before the June 30th primary elections and encourage them to support a “Montana Plan” for Colorado. We will publish a list that shows each candidate’s position.

2026 will be an exciting year for the Voters’ Army. We need your participation in these major campaigns.

Send messages about RTR-Score voting to your elected representatives. Especially Denver City Council members.

Send messages about the Montana Plan to your elected representatives. Especially Colorado State Representatives and Senators.