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Why do American ballots have more than two choices, when the news media has spent their time pretending there are only two? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by CoderSupreme@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

yep. ranked choice and removing party affiliation from ballots would go a long way to help this

so there is a solution. too bad no politicians will touch it because it would hinder their golden '2 party stranglehold' goose

[–] the_artic_one@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thankfully we can bypass the politicians and implement a better voting system via citizen ballot initiatives in most states. Maine and Alaska have already adopted ranked choice voting via ballot initiatives.