• @[email protected]
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      Except it’s just the asshole editors making headlines that put a spin on what actually happened.

      In the complaint, the local party and its chair Charles Wilson pointed to voting patterns in Wards 7 and 8, which encompass predominantly-Black communities east of the Anacostia River.

      The lawsuit notes that in elections for at-large seats on the DC city council — where voters can currently choose two candidates — voters in Wards 7 and 8 are less likely to cast a second vote, a phenomenon known as “undervoting.”

      “Many of those voters report their confusion about selecting more than one candidate for what appears to be the same office,” said Wilson in the lawsuit, arguing that implementing ranked-choice voting “would introduce an additional layer of confusion to the electorate.”

      So no it’s not AcKsUaLlY DeMoCrAtS are the racists! They’re just pointing to a trend that they’ve noticed in specific areas that they have data on.

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        Sounds like they need to explain the system instead of crying about it.

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          Exactly. I’m pretty mad about this b.s.

          So called public servants and supposed professionals have never heard of “throwing the baby out with the bathwater” apparently…

          If confusion is the issue, then educate ffs… :(

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        Its still a bad reason for stopping ranked choice. Those at-large sections are different than the rest of the ballot. Is that a good enough of a reason to keep a system that limits competition between political parties?

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          Absolutely not, I think it’s a bullshit excuse to cover for what other people are saying: they want to keep the power dynamic as it is. I was just responding to the stupid Republican trope that it’s “typical racist Democrats.”