@[email protected] to [email protected] • edit-26 months agoWhy do American ballots have more than two choices, when the news media has spent their time pretending there are only two?programming.devimagemessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1115
arrow-up1115imageWhy do American ballots have more than two choices, when the news media has spent their time pretending there are only two?programming.dev@[email protected] to [email protected] • edit-26 months agomessage-square50fedilink
When you get your ballot and there’s 10 choices but all year the media pretends there’s only two, that should tell you something’s seriously broken
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•6 months agoTop-two mixed primary regardless of partisan affiliation. One primary ballot held, all candidates declare a party ‘preference’, all votes counted together. Top two go onto the general election.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•6 months agoUnderstood, you are exactly right about that. What you’ve described filters out third parties. I think most conceptions of ranked choice voting by contrast would give them more of a chance, but granted that’s not how it works everywhere.
Top-two mixed primary regardless of partisan affiliation.
One primary ballot held, all candidates declare a party ‘preference’, all votes counted together. Top two go onto the general election.
Understood, you are exactly right about that. What you’ve described filters out third parties. I think most conceptions of ranked choice voting by contrast would give them more of a chance, but granted that’s not how it works everywhere.