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H.R.3040 - To prohibit the use of ranked choice voting in elections for Federal office.
(www.congress.gov)
Fuck this
Where are all of y'all dumb motherfuckers that were going on about how the two party system is rigged and you wanted RCV, and therefore you couldn't vote for Democrats because they weren't adequately enthused about the idea
Where the fuck are you bitches
We're hiding in our basements waiting for Trump to save Gaza
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You serve us you lame bitches.
NO DEMOCRACY ALLOWED, YOU PLEBS
Sincerely,
Your Plutocrats
These guys are goading us into imposing street justice.
History repeats
And that'll goad them into enacting marshall law, and well, they have tanks.
Out of curiosity, what constitutional basis do they have to do this? Elections are explicitly run by the states and there's nothing about RCV or any voting system that prevents a fair election.
There working on the constitutional basis of wanting to become a dictatorship, can't have people voting against you now can you?
The same one where they can skip due process and "deport" people.
The rules are pretty muddy right now.
RCV favours moderate candidates. If you are in a political extreme, you might argue that that's not fair. But I don't see how it not being perfect can result in a ban. Specially when the current system is more unfair.
There's anywhere from 100-400MM USD distributed for election security and infrastructure provided by the federal government to states on a yearly basis. The path forward would likely to be barring distribution of such funds for any state which holds RCV elections.
hr 42069 - "take away everything good and make sadness mandatory"
If the Democrats cant completely unify against this then I can confidently say they're not worth supporting at all.
It's amazing that you haven't come to this conclusion already, honestly
They sent trump a fucking letter after the 40% approval rating Shit, they belong against the wall with the nazis
And here it is, the dashing of hopes. It was nice while it lasted.
Can someone please explain.
Ranked choice voting allows you to rank each candidate in order of preference. This voting style is picking up steam in local and state level community initiatives, and is likely to allow the US to break from a 2 party system.
Change is scary to Republicans so they are trying to vilify it and ban it for federal elections.
It's not change that scares them. It's that ranked choice voting will take away a lot of their power and gives third parties a significant piece of their pie. Can't have that, now.
Ranked Choice voting is how you have a democracy. It avoids situations like the US has where two very similar conservative parties run against each other, and there's no way to elect a progressive party.
Isn't that cute, pretending we're still going to have elections.
While I do think ranked choice voting would be better than our current system let's not forget that it does have a pretty major downside. It can lead to someone nobody likes getting elected just due to how the system works. Veritasium (I think it was him?) made a video about different voting methods and all their downsides.
Basically math geniuses have been trying to find a solution to this problem since the dawn of time and so far all voting methods have inherent downsides.
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