b) Restoring a sense of agency amongst voters is also a challenge. The #GOP has spent decades promulgating anti government views, turning government into the enemy, cultivating a view that governance is somehow not controlled by voters. Voters don’t believe they can drive change anymore

Fixing election financing and stepping away from our two party system using #RankedChoice voting would be particularly helpful

LOL, I could go on….

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It is impressive how little understanding there was of the voting system used. Even this article has paragraphs that are complete nonsense. The county implemented two votings systems at once, ranked choice and proportional representation. They only mentioned the first one in the lead up to the election. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/07/15/ranked-choice-voting-cancelled-arlington/ #Arlington #RankedChoice

👍 In the current US election system, a left-leaning third party only helps Republicans win (and is likely to be funded by Republicans), and a right-leaning #ThirdParty only helps Democrats win (and is likely to be funded by Democrats). It's the spoiler effect in First Past The Post (#FPTP), explained well by #GCPGrey in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

If you want more real political parties, elect Democrats and pressure them to pass #RankedChoice voting for all elections
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#uspolitics

In a "winner takes all" two-party political system you cannot in good faith run as a #ThirdParty. You ARE splitting the vote and you MUST know that already, otherwise you're a political rube who has no place in high office [1].

#RankedChoice voting or similar schemes address this. You need that in place FIRST.

🚫 #PeoplesParty #FootGun

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[1]: absolutely true for national races; likely true but contextual for state races; more of a heuristic for local races

#EliotCutler ran for governor of #Maine twice (2010 and 2014), each time as an independent liberal, each time undercutting the #Democratic candidate and handing victory to the #Republican and proto-Trumpist #PaulLePage. (These two spoiler campaigns led Maine to lead the nation in adopting #RankedChoice voting.) Cutler is now going to prison for #ChildPornography.
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/05/04/news/hancock/eliot-cutler-maine-governor-horrible-secret-n6hjn1me0n/

#USPolitics

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https://twitter.com/representus/status/1640825843797696513?s=20

Our preferential system of voting gives Australians the opportunity to loosen the stifling grip of the two party system while maintaining political stability.

For the most part, we are only given two choices in terms of government, so you should almost never give your first preference to the Coalition or Labor. Put your preferred government (out of those two) second.

You can even put them further down the list, as long as you preference them above the government you want to avoid. The only time this doesn't apply is when you are offered no viable alternatives.

Research the others. See who else might better represent you. Make them number one. We don't have to live in Groundhog Day.

I'm a Green, but this is not just for Greens voters.

#auspol #TwoPartySystem #politics #InstantRunoff #democracy #Australia #RankedChoice #RankedChoiceVoting

Ranked Choice Voting - The Future's Choice

https://www.voterchoicearizona.org/

https://fairvote.org/our-reforms/ranked-choice-voting/

#rankedchoice #election #changethesystem #rcv #arizona

Spending my Sunday evening reading up on #vote counting systems. Ran across two websites, one has nothing nice to say about #ApprovalVoting and nothing but nice to say about #InstantRunnoff (now branded as #RankedChoice), and the other site vice versa. I think none of these #zealots argue in good faith.

Did a quick search & review of #ApprovalVoting vs. #RankedChoice aka #InstantRunoff. Very partisan articles -- each one says why their method is great & the other lousy. Opponents of approval voting say we have not tried it enough to have evidence, therefore we should not try it.

#RankedChoice voting for the #SpeakerOfTheHouse!

Thinking of all the Americans who pooh-poohed #RankedChoice and PR systems for taking too long to come to a conclusion
#HouseSpeaker is now on count 11 in a single-seat constituency and they are now adding in the joke candidates that would have been eliminated in the 1st round under #PRSTV
#GOPDisarray

These votes for #speaker of the House really demonstrate the need for #rankedchoice voting

Don't blame RCV/ ranked choice voting for any California snafus!
#rankedchoice #ranked #choice #voting #mutliple #candidate #voters #voices #RCV #ballot #count https://electionlawblog.org/?p=134155

even when tallying is perfect, i think #ApprovalVoting is usually superior to #RankedChoice for single-winner elections.

but i usually think the critique that #rcv is "complicated to implement" is a bit of a strawman (although "complicated to understand" is an important critique).

sometimes, however, the strawman rises from the haystack.

via @ben

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Alameda-County-admits-tallying-error-in-17682520.php

#election #voting #civictech

@rbreich Votes, but we also must go to a #RankedChoice voting system.

We also need to yearly tax audit all nationally elected officials, and all that are appointed via congress. This includes the President, VP, #Congress, #SCOTUS, Judges, Cabinet position, Department heads, etc. #TaxAudit #TrumpTaxes #Congress #Vote

Some geeky ideas that might become law in New Hampshire this year, including #righttorepair , data portability, #rankedchoice voting and #SpaceForce!

We're missing one perennial geek favorite, though.

#NH

https://www.concordmonitor.com/LSR-bills-new-hampshire-nh-49169436

@greengordon Yes, I remember both those cases, bitterly. Your post reminded me that I just got an email about Yukon’s Citizens Assembly and so I thought I’d share this. https://secure.fairvote.ca/en/civicrm/contribute/transact?id=65&reset=1

This, and the recent Alaska experience (albeit that was #rankedChoice not #ProportionalRepresentation), gives me hope.

Ranked choice voting is catching on in the United States: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2022/12/02/dont-vote-for-just-one-ranked-choice-voting-is-gaining-ground

#mattvasilogambros #pew #pewforum #pewforumtrusts #rankedchoice #voting #democracy #nevada #maine #alaska #unitedstates #unitedstatesofamerica #us #usa