• Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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    15 hours ago

    “In 2023, 74 bills were introduced supporting ranked-choice voting and 57 of these bills had only Democrat sponsors. In fact, just eight percent of the total bills received bipartisan support.”

    No, but there’s one party that has shown support for it and one party that has attempted to outright ban it.

    It’s an easy choice.

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      13 hours ago

      There’s one party that pretends to support it publicly as long as they can blame the Republicans for “blocking it”.

      Ftfy. This is the Democrats go to game plan.

      It is insulting to pretend Democrats support ranked choice voting while they’re suing to keep it off of the ballot in DC.

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      7 hours ago

      Ranked choice voting is still first past the post… There is still only one winner, the results aren’t spread proportionally. Ranked choice voting can give even bigger majorities with even fewer votes. Since you have only 2 real parties, it won’t change much in the US.

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        3 hours ago

        Your understanding of Ranked Choice voting, and what the point of it is, seems to be missing a big chunk right there in the middle…

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        You’re conflating “voting for a single-seat position” with any method of vote counting. There’s only ever one winner if there’s one seat, but there are better ways of counting votes than first-past-the-post. At least with ranked-choice, more people are happy with the outcome because the winner might be their second preferred option.