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Not to mention that there's a school of thought that ranked choice voting is illegal.

id never even heard of this option and im really interested

This, a thousand times this, plus every possible measure to break the hegemony of the Two-Party System.

I remember in 2000, after Bush v Gore, 17-year-old me doing a deep dive on voting systems and the electoral college and third parties. I still carry those lessons with me, and the biggest one is that until we change the voting system, we have 2 viable parties and that's it. binary choice.

You are spot on about the need for RCV.

republicans haaaaaate ranked choice voting, and a lot of mainline dems don't love it either, so you know it's a good idea 👍🏼

NYC's church going centrist to conservative democratic voter block loved that guy. And it was a big chunk. And they turned out bigger than the progressives. Simple math. Thank God the Republicans here and generally are so racist or they would be much stronger in NYC.

Absolutely. We do an abysmal job of teaching ppl about non FPTP systems of voting and it is on purpose.

I’m partial to STAR or Range voting, myself. youtu.be/3-mOeUXAkV0?...

Multiple voting is a simpler method that requires less explanation and is easier to tabulate (though ranked choice isn't as complex as NY made it either). Essentially you'd *as many* candidates as are acceptable to you. Whoever has the most votes wins, and you still get viable consensus.

My typical vote in CA's terribly designed top-2-open-primary votes is either "a third party candidate if there is one" or "the second-most-popular Democrat so the runoff is D-D instead of D-R." It's a mess, and voting for the 3rd-party candidate is mostly to help them keep some ballot status.

Why, exactly and only, Ranked Choice? It compares very poorly with other potential balloting/tabulation methods. As little as it's been tried, there are already cases of questionable or downright bad result, complexity leading to implementation errors, failure, and repeal.

This explained it really well for me a few years ago. www.wnycstudios.org/story/tweak-...

going to look up Irish system right now!

I'm all in for ranked choice voting. I know that it will be effective because of the number of entrenched politicians who are scared of it.

And not just primaries either.

I am ready to change out the hell of the two-party system for the hell of coalition government! It’ll force politicians to be more responsive to voters.

Because the two parties benefitting from having a two-party system do everything possible to keep it from happening.

God I was so pissed that it didn’t pass. People just need to see this video! youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

It's a lot more likely it will happen then if we keep trying now! Normalizing the idea of it every year even if we keep losing is the one thing I wish we'd learn from the GOP!

10000 % this.