CoderSupreme to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 6 hours agoWhy do American ballots have more than two choices, when the news media has spent their time pretending there are only two?message-squaremessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down124
arrow-up126arrow-down1message-squareWhy do American ballots have more than two choices, when the news media has spent their time pretending there are only two?CoderSupreme to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 6 hours agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down2·5 hours agoyep. 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
minus-squarethe_artic_onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-23 hours agoThankfully 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.
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
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.