And slightly fancier than approval voting for multiple winner elections.
Natanael
joined 8 months ago
Also, Zeus
Because they were outnumbered, they had to distract the crowd to not let them reach the politicians. There were a goddamn guillotine outside, and several participants are guilty of violent crimes and had weapons stashed in vehicles nearby.
If you want democracy you want to end winner-takes-all elections and go for proportional representation, and you want ranked choice voting or equivalent.
Attacking people for explaining the consequences of choices with the current terrible voting system doesn't promote democracy
You're a mod and didn't ever see it?
I can dig up dozens of threads on bluesky (didn't go into a lot of conversations about it here or elsewhere), but you can see in this very thread there's other people who encountered them.
The attitude is also remarkably unprofessional with the mod flag visible
I'm not the only person here who remember that crowd.
What should I prove next, 1+1=2?
That's what they're supposed to do, doesn't mean it's what they do in practice.
Then prove I'm making it up, if it's so easy
Revisionism
Ask for the guards' takes on what happened instead
Just run a search for "genocide Joe" and look for the people denying that Trump being buddies with Netanyahu would make things worse, claiming Trump wants peace (all he wants is power and PR)
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-says-jill-stein-favorite-politicians-1980202
https://fairvote.org/jill-stein-and-spoiler-season/
Despite this poll, the conventional wisdom remains (and most polling suggests) that Green candidates hurt Democrats more than Republicans. The parties seem to be approaching Stein’s campaign accordingly.
In addition to the ad, Democrats have hammered Stein’s candidacy in recent weeks. Conservative operatives tried to help Stein qualify for the ballot in key states to hurt Vice President Harris (just as Democrats tried to help a Constitution Party candidate to hurt former President Trump).
One thing is clear: fear and weaponization of minor-party “spoilers” is alive and well in the last days of the 2024 presidential election – except in Maine and Alaska, which use ranked choice voting to vote for president.
With ranked choice voting, neither side would have to worry about the election being “spoiled,” and voters could confidently cast their ballots for their favorite candidate instead of feeling pressured to pick the lesser of two evils.
Ranked choice also opens up for people voting for the "safe" choice while still expressing discontent by ranking another much less viable option representing their real preference. This also generates a strong signal of how strong support alternative candidates have, giving them a significant advantage in determining when it's worth campaigning