• @[email protected]
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    18 months ago

    We need ranked choice voting, so you can vote for who you actually support without throwing your vote away.

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      8 months ago

      Which will never happen because the Republicans are dead set on never changing any system in any way that’s not directly in their benefit and no one else’s. Until that moment arrives, which is never, the only option is to pick your particular flavour of straight-up fascism (Republicans these days) or anything else (Democrats) in the party primaries.

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        18 months ago

        Don’t fool yourself. The DNC also doesn’t want ranked choice voting. Neither party wants any competition. The entire system is built to make it virtually impossible for a third party candidate to win. Unless they actually hit 270+, even if they were a clear majority winner, they wouldn’t be elected.

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    8 months ago

    Blanket statements don’t work. How each state allocates votes to electoral college votes varies, and each states political leaning varies.

    There are times when not voting or voting third party effectively has no effect or the opposite effect.

    These oversimplified takes are tiring and pathetic.

    Get better arguments.

    • Todd Bonzalez
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      08 months ago

      Explain how voting third party could have the “opposite effect”. Opposite of what?

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        18 months ago

        In some places it can be seen as helping one candidate, in other places it can be seen as helping the other. The country isn’t the same everywhere. Some states lean different ways and so it all depends what your vote is countering.

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    18 months ago

    only if you’re in a swing state. In which case vote tactically. If you’re not in a swing state do not vote trump and do not vote Harris. Instead vote third party there to maybe get a 5% national representation and therefore get more funding for em.

    Voting tactics woo.

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      18 months ago

      Also if enough people in California, NY, etc. Vote third party they may deny Harris a popular vote win while still allowing her to win in EC. This would both send a message about ignoring the left and might make it so Republicans start supporting getting rid of the electoral college too.

      If both of the parties had an election stolen from them in less then a decade due to this dumb antiquated system maybe they’ll muster some political will to get rid of it.

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        08 months ago

        A great point. Republicans will never vote to remove the EC unless it hurts them and theoretically this could.

        Screw Republicans by voting literally whoever besides trump and Harris in Cali