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I have no idea what party these people belong to. It's not listed on the sheet. Their policy positions aren't shown. Their endorsements aren't shown. Nobody knows who the fuck any of these people are.
What you need Ranked Choice Voting for is Congress and the Presidency. Local elections also need to be partisan. Otherwise how the fuck do you know where any of the candidates even generally stand on the issues?
I prefer having ballots not say what party the person is in. Then people actually have to know who they are voting for, not just blindly check a box beside R or D every time.
Local candidates usually have websites, do interviews with local papers, and are suuuper excited to talk to potential voters, so people could look at any of that?
I'd rather parties have no official role so we're actually voting for people to represent us. Candidates have a responsibility to get their message out, and voters have a responsibility to do some research.
But that just doesn’t happen. We have to plan for the lowest common denominator.
The city or county will probably have a thing called a website where you can read about all of those things for each candidate.
Is the website in the voting booth?
... You do research, you have a fucking week minimum after you receive your ballot. This isn't complicated. Parties also have nothing to do with an individual representatives politics.
We do all of our voting by mail and get a pamphlet with most of the serious candidates. It is really great and we have like two weeks to work on it. It isn't like we showed up at the poll and were confronted with this and had to fill it out on the spot.
We should also make vote by mail mandatory.
Yeah, researching candidates is great and all, but like they didn't exactly set themselves up for success with this ballot design.
It kinda sucks ass. :/
Non partisan elections.