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no one fucking told me about states banning RCV during all that yapping on here about how i should VOTE THIRD PARTY OR ELSE IM COMPLICIT in the DNCs CRIMES
it may or may not be joever, very blackpilled at this moment
edit it’s actually 10 states. 5 in the past two months.
Union busting
Rolling back regulations
The list goes on....
A small correction:
Rolling back regulations that don't benefit their agenda
They're pretty fucking happy to introduce new ones and leave existing ones alone when it serves to fuck over the average citizen or LGBTQ+ community.
States have banned ranked choice voting??? wtf why???
ostensible answer:
“We believe in the one person, one vote system of elections that our country was founded upon,” Missouri state Sen. Ben Brown, the ballot measure’s sponsor, said in an interview.
Brown and other critics of ranked choice voting contend the system is confusing, and he said there are numerous instances in which voters didn’t end up ranking their choices.
real answer: republicans don’t win as much when rcv is in place.
I hate slogans like "one person, one vote" or "innocent until proven guilty" because so many people treat them as principles in themselves rather catchy names for principles that are much more nuanced than those names suggest. It doesn't matter how many "votes" a person has the ability to cast so long as everyone is given an equally opportunity to influence the outcome of an election.
Another one I hate is "Let me ask a simple yes or no question:" Proceeds to ask a very complex question with a lot of nuance
Then, when the person tries to clarify the person asking just says "I just want a yes or a no."
Both parties do it, and it's just scoring political points every time.
Yes as long as it isnt one person 8 votes another person 9. Although, the electoral college somewhat is that anyway... A vote in one state is not equivalent to a vote in another.
To paraphrase Reservoir Dogs: Senator Brown sounds an awful lot like Senator Shit..
Because it’s progress. Shockingly, the five states that have banned it are red.
All ten states that have banned it are red, and the ones that have it on the upcoming ballot are as well.
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/05/nx-s1-4969563/ranked-choice-voting-bans
Edit: added link
Because with ranked choice people can vote for Jane the Socialist but also pencil in a secondary, begrudging vote for Joe Biden. They want lefties to split their vote. They want a vote for the Greens to be a loss for the Democrats. Ranked choice kind of negates that.
If you can rank your votes and have multiple options available you actually have to stand for something in order for people to vote for you.
Being against another party is not enough in such a system since there are more options available.
Can you guess which party that holds a tenuous grasp over their constituents via fear would not want them having the option of voting for other people that might more closely align with their ideals and morals?
I mean, technically it's both parties at this point, but Republicans know that RCV will be the absolute death of the current version of their party which has devolved into little more than a reactionary ultranationalist faction.
Why would they ban ranked choice? Oh right, because they'd absolutely never get elected if they couldn't cheat with the current gerrymandered hell they've built.
Forgot to add:
thanks i made this in a rush and definitely could have put more details :)
It's a failed democratic republic that's sliding into fascism.
fascism is an amoral slide tackle to democratic republics
SCOTUS nullifying literally all the progressive laws intended to protect the people.
How in the actual hell did we go from justices like Hugo Black who was a straight up KKK member but switched sides and became one of the most liberal judges in American history, to the likes of Brett Kavanaugh who spends his free time getting drunk
Nah, state laws get reversed all the time - not by the judiciary, but simply by the next legislature. Obviously definitely fight for RCV and fair representation tooth and nail, but there's no need to go full blackpilled. We're still in the running!
What is “anti-electoral disinformation”
“don’t vote because it makes you complicit in your oppression” and similar
Ah, gotcha. Thanks.
It's a system designed to keep the 2 parties in power. Voting third party means your vote is effectively wasted in a FPTP system