The filing itself is here.

  • @Myxomatosis
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    74 months ago

    Why don’t more states abandon first-past-the-post?

    • @AbidanYre
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      154 months ago

      Massachusetts tried last time and the ballot initiative failed.

      • @Clinicallydepressedpoochie
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        14 months ago

        Rcv is “new and scary” peoples resistance to change will always make them shit on things they dont understand. The only solution is to have more of us then there are of them.

        • @AbidanYre
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          There were ads running against it and the arguments were nonsense, but there was nothing from the pro side. It was like they expected* the electorate to just know that it was better and didn’t think a campaign was needed.

          *Expected, not requested

    • @[email protected]OP
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      94 months ago

      Mostly because the progressives didn’t control them in the early 1900s, so they don’t have legislature-bypassing initiatives, and even in states where you do have that, it’s expensive to get one through.

      • @Myxomatosis
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        24 months ago

        So disappointing. I feel like things will never change.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          54 months ago

          Political change tends to be like that — nothing at all for a long period when you don’t have the power to act, and sudden rapid change when you do.

          • @Myxomatosis
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            44 months ago

            It feels like we’re on the cusp of something big happening, for better or for worse.

            • @Doomsider
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              14 months ago

              Something worse probably and I am an optimist.

        • @linearchaos
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          14 months ago

          On the upside they could change for the worse. Maybe instead of fair elections the chang is a god king

    • Schadrach
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      24 months ago

      Because the parties with the power don’t want to, because it might cost them power.