• @[email protected]
    25•9 months ago

    You’re missing some voting reform, but full props for putting voting reform at the top of the list.

    Some suggestions:

    1. Make voting day a national holiday.
    2. Make absentee voting without an excuse a national standard.
    3. Enable repeat voting where only your last vote “counts”, allowing absentee voters to change their minds.
    4. Ban states from announcing vote totals until all votes are in, preventing people from voting with more knowledge than others.
    5. Make allowing people who have served their time in prison to vote a national standard.
    6. Overturn the recent SCOTUS ruling about the 14A actually applying to Federal office.
    • @AEsheron
      5•9 months ago

      Yeah, would probably like to see ranked choice swapped out for something else too. My preferred tool is STAR, but there’s a lot of other options. The biggest benefit of RC is it isn’t as bad as what we have, which is good, but it isn’t great.

      • @[email protected]
        1•9 months ago

        There are multiple kinds of ranked choice voting. The “popular” one in America right now is IRV, but you shouldn’t assume all ranked choice voting algorithms are IRV and hence share its flaws (and benefits). My personal favorite RC algorithm is Ranked Pairs. I am not familiar with STAR.

      • @[email protected]
        2•9 months ago

        No, because we already track if you vote or not. Here is an example procedure:

        1. Each time Agnes Nitt sends in her vote, we put the sealed envelope in the Agnes Nitt pile. This is what we do with or without repeat voting, because it is illegal for Agnes’s vote to count twice - we must record that she voted!
        2. Each time Agnes Nitt sends in a new vote, we incinerate any envelopes in her pile (unread) and replace with the new one.
        3. When we hit count time, whatever envelope is in the Agnes Nitt pile is handed to the vote counters, in exactly the same fashion whether or not we have repeat voting.