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[–] WamGams@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 months ago (38 children)

The only people who dont vote for the least bad option are the people who have the luxary not to.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 8 points 4 months ago (16 children)

We gotta get us some Approval Voting so people can vote for their true favorite without worrying if it'll accidentally give them a worse election result.

[–] daltotron@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is this ever gonna happen, though? I see it like guaranteed under every single social media post that complains about how we don't have a functional system and while I agree that fptp as a system is bad and horrible, it almost feels like a red herring at this point because it has such a low chance of ever being changed as each party in power, and any party that theoretically ever able to take power, would not stand to benefit from alternative voting. It's like prison reform or free healthcare or making weed legal or any number of other things that has high levels of voter approval but conveniently never happen because it's not in the best interest of the party, except this one is possibly more niche and easier to spread misinformation about.

Like I dunno, what's the M.O. on getting this done? Get it approved in a couple local elections and then just hope it bubbles up from there? I know in oregon there's supposed to be some referendum on it, but I kind of doubt it's going to pass even though I'm gonna vote for it. I seriously don't see it happening, at least on a federal level, without some extremely serious reform that basically completely reworks how the government currently functions.

[–] prunerye 5 points 4 months ago

Ranked choice voting has already been adopted for state elections in multiple states.

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