(30 Aug) - Ranked choice voting deserves a place in presidential primaries https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/29/opinion/ranked-choice-voting-deserves-place-presidential-primaries/ #RankedChoiceVoting #PresidentialPrimaries #BostonGlobe #VotingReform #Democracy #PoliticalReform #Politics #News https://mastodon.sdf.org/@uspolitics/110978475713095513

#STARVoting is canvassing at The Montavilla Street Fair. Sunday July 30. Volunteers and signatures needed to get https://www.starvoting.org/star4or2024 on the Oregon 2024 ballot. This is the #VotingReform we need to break out of two-party games like "throwing your vote away" with simplistic outdated vote-counting methods, better than #RankChoice because in STAR, your vote always counts and the 2-step results (add & count your favorite of top-2) are simple to distribute, track, & audit. #ORpol #Portland #pdx

Help #STARvoting get on the statewide ballot and let's get #ORpol unstuck from polarized deadlock! Volunteer to gather signatures before the Pride Parade on Sunday, and more #pdx events coming up later this month and next. State chapter zoom Wednesday night. #VotingReform

https://mailchi.mp/equal.vote/youre-invited-portland-star-voting-froyo-social-15893776

Michigan voter reforms have made it a model for strengthening democracy, report says 

"While some states have struggled to implement meaningful reforms—and many have moved in the wrong direction by restricting access to the ballot box — Michigan has proved that transformational change can be accomplished in just a few short years"

#USPol #Politics #Voting #Elections #Michigan #News #VotingReform #Democracy #Democrats #MichiganAdvance

https://michiganadvance.com/2023/06/15/michigan-voter-reforms-have-made-it-a-model-for-strengthening-democracy-report-says/

#Portland votes for proportional representation and instead gets something closer to bloc plurality. Apparently we're now just an annexed territory of Lake Oswego.

https://rosecityreform.substack.com/p/officeholders-nix-eight-rankings

#pdx #voting #democracy #votingreform #elections

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/29/red-wall-brexiters-hero-voters-election-partisan?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other and the future must be in #votingreform

STAR in Star voting stands for:

Score 0-5
Then
Automatic
Runoff of the top 2

Sliced bread step aside!

This could change the way we all feel about our voting system and our leaders. We might even want to vote more.
If we could get better leaders with larger mandates, they would have more power to do our will and not the special interests. Star voting makes that much more likely.
#Democrates #starvoting #votingreform #electoralreform #refrom #vote #dosomething #makeithappen #hope

The collective general will and interests of the #democratic voters is not synonymous with the will and interests of the #DNC political machine. We trust too much the organization that feigns to be of us but subverts our right to choose our leaders fairly, feeding us approved party options through massive PR and back room steering. The DNC machine has a #monopoly on #opposition to #republicans and acts as a barrier to prioritizing critically needed and widely supported #votingreform #duopoly

The collective general will and interests of the #democratic voters are not synonymous with the will and interests of the #DNC political machine. We trust too much the organization that feigns to be of us but subverts our right to choose our leaders fairly, feeding us approved party options through massive PR and back room steering. The DNC machine has a #monopoly on #opposition to #republicans and acts as a barrier to prioritizing critically needed and widely supported #votingreform #duopoly

Submitted testimony OPPOSING Oregon House Bill 2004, proposal to adopt RCV for most statewide seats:

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023R1/Downloads/PublicTestimonyDocument/65364

#rcv #oregon #voting #votingreform

Hey Blue team operators! Change the rules now. Get rid of #superdelegates. They are a terrible look. Pre pledging of super #delegates and other back room slime-ball politics is the reason we suffered tRump. Clean it up. Only democratic voters should decide the candidate. #democrates #primaries #voting #votingreform #election #dems

Have you heard of STAR Voting? Check out this explainer video on why it is better than Ranked Choice Voting and our current Choose One Plurality system.

https://youtu.be/Nu4eTUafuSc

While RCV is an improvement over Choose One voting, it is still problematic. STAR Voting solves those problems and is easy to follow!

#VotingReform #RankedChoiceVoting #RCV #Voting #STARVoting #PDX #Portland #Oregon

Really, Starmer? Really? OK. Then it's time for a new party of the #Left: explicitly in favour of radical #SocialDemocracy and #VotingReform, #decentralization, #energy and #carbon #transition, the #NHS, all #publicservices, and an appropriate #taxation system.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/starmer-jeremy-corbyn-will-not-be-allowed-to-stand-as-a-labour-candidate-at-the-next-election-343648/

#RCV fails to deliver diversity and broad choice in candidates, giving constituents only a short-term high.

https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/reports/rcv-impact-on-candidate-entry-and-representation/

#RankedChoiceVoting #democracy #voting #votingReform #InstantRunoffVoting

Hi, I am a PhD candidate in #physics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. I work with #solitons and compactons in field theory. A lot of my work involves numerical simulations in #JuliaLang.

I am interested in #opensource software, specially #Linux. My favorite distro is #Fedora #Silverblue.

Other interests include #DoctorWho, #cybersecurity, and #votingreform.

#introduction

It's hard to imagine how a serious tabulation error like this could happen with #approvalVoting, it's such a simple and powerful voting method. Yet another drawback of the misguided push for #RCV.

https://news.ballotpedia.org/2023/01/26/tallying-error-in-oakland-calif-led-to-inaccurate-election-results/

#voting #votingReform #democracy

@duckwhistle @Spectraliser @LJClements8 @OliverNoble

Maybe.... but not necessarily. I think #votingReform requires people to be convinced it is the right thing to do, rather than looking for a situation where it is possible someone will be forced to implement it. It might take more work, but I think wishing for that pressure situation and calling whoever a bastard because they do not agree with you is not the best way.

I want First Past The Post in Canada to go the way of Old Yeller.

#votingreform
#Canada
#FPTP

I love this idea! Regarding vote processing and oversight as akin to jury duty as a civic responsibility seems intuitive, and one would hope that it would engender broader trust and investment in the process.

https://thefulcrum.us/Elections/Voting/mandatory-election-volunteering

#democracy #VotingReform #voting #civics #sortition

@Hmmm

Whilst I understand the rationale for digital voting, I am ⭐VEHEMENTLY ⭐ against it because .

1. Since the closed source voting machines in the US have been implemented, the statistical scrutineering methods developed for revealing vote manipulation shows vote rigging via machine happens (strangely enough, favouring conservatives)

2. Many of the voting machines and backend voting infrastructure are TRIVIALLY compromisable.

3. While you can make open source, reviewable software, the pool of scrutineers is far smaller (and therefore more compromisable)

4. Pencil, paper and eyeballs from all parties are most effective at ensuring quality elections (at least in Australia)

5. Finally, and most importantly, the influence on voters you allude to, occurs in the Oligarch mass media. There is next to ZERO evidence election corruption occurs at the ballot.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

#VotingMachineHacking #votingreform #infosec