▲ 800 ▼ DC Democrats argue ranked choice voting is confusing to voters in predominantly Black areas as they seek to block potential vote on implementing the system (www.businessinsider.com) submitted 3 years ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 293 comments fedilink hide all child comments Businessinsider.com
[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 7 points 3 years ago* (1 child) How stupid do you think voters are? Extremely. To be fair for about half the population they're kinda right. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ThunderingJerboa@kbin.social 5 points 3 years ago* I mean they are but they aren't. They are doing this because it only benefits them to deny ranked choice voting. There is literally no negative to it beyond it being only slightly better than FPTP, which we have been stuck with for centuries. Note: Splitting the vote and the spoiler effect are stupid problems of FPTP and we shouldn't have to deal with them. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ThunderingJerboa@kbin.social 5 points 3 years ago* I mean they are but they aren't. They are doing this because it only benefits them to deny ranked choice voting. There is literally no negative to it beyond it being only slightly better than FPTP, which we have been stuck with for centuries. Note: Splitting the vote and the spoiler effect are stupid problems of FPTP and we shouldn't have to deal with them. permalink fedilink source parent