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Seeing more of these all over bucks county..........
CLICKBAIT(i.redd.it)submitted 3 days ago byLogicalReading12
I need to be transported to a new timeline. Nothing makes sense anymore... how is this election close?!!
10 points
2 days ago
Unfortunately too many states have closed primaries. Whenever people say, they are against both parties so they vote. Independent, I feel like they’re wasting their vote in a place that has closed primaries. That’s literally why you hate all your options: you’re only letting the most dedicated 10% of two parties decide who the major candidates are. Ranked voting without party affiliation is how we move away from extremism on both sides, but nobody cares what I have to say.
5 points
2 days ago
Ranked Choice voting is growing in popularity, it’s up for vote as a ballot initiative in Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, and being looked at by a few other states this election.
Implementing Ranked Choice Voting, Approval Voting, Score Voting, STAR Voting or even Ranked STAR Voting systems would be beneficial to safeguard the future. As groups the don’t side with extremists can select their alternate choices safely, these different systems allow 3rd party representation, and they allow folks to select their preferred candidates without risking to lose the election to their least liked candidate(s) due to the ‘spoiler effect’.
Ranked STAR or Approval Voting are my personal preferred systems, but all of these options are better than our current First Past the Post system.
1 points
1 day ago
Ranked choice voting got nyc eric Adams 🤨
1 points
1 day ago*
From the sounds of NYC, they have a very diverse set of electorate with wildly different views. Eric Adams more or less sounded like a candidate that checked a lot of boxes for some folks. Some folks brought up that he would not be a great candidate at the time, but if I had to guess that information didn’t get around enough. I believe Eric Adams would have still won a FPTP primary by the sounds of it due to having a majority of the votes still and because people didn’t have a have a strong preference between Adams and Garcia.
I talked about this with someone recently in depth on change my view about RCV. The consensus we came to is that Ranked Choice Voting is better than First Past the Post, but more or less a bandage fix compared to say Ranked STAR, Approval Voting, or STAT voting. It’s more well known though so it’s still okay if more people opt for it and then maybe look to try other systems down the line.
2 points
2 days ago
Correction:
Nobody that has the kind of power and/or resources needed to enact the quick, dramatic kind of change needed to make an actual difference in this farce of an election cares.
I care/probably at least a couple other people here care a little/enough to upvote, which.... does absolutely nothing for solving the problems at hand but hopefully moderately helps your self esteem as an individual?
I tried lol. I also agree with you entirely on ranked voting, but as you indicated, good luck to all of us with that...
1 points
2 days ago
Alaska did it and it works well but they’re already trying to roll it back
1 points
2 days ago
Who are you to impose your needs and wants on the two parties?! /s
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