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minus-square@Etterralink20•10 months agoNot a great solution. We need ranked voting. Not perfect, but significantly better than the 2 party shitshow we’re currently saddled with.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink23•10 months agoMaine already has ranked choice voting for statewide elections. They can’t fix the national system. If the hack to at least give the person with the most votes the Presidency wins, then maybe we can work for ranked choice for Presidential elections.
minus-squaremonsterpiece42linkfedilink9•10 months agoWeirdly Maine is/maybe was the only state that did ranked choice voting. But it also kinda sounds like this new system supercedes it. https://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/upcoming/rankedchoicefaq.html
Not a great solution. We need ranked voting. Not perfect, but significantly better than the 2 party shitshow we’re currently saddled with.
Maine already has ranked choice voting for statewide elections. They can’t fix the national system.
If the hack to at least give the person with the most votes the Presidency wins, then maybe we can work for ranked choice for Presidential elections.
Weirdly Maine is/maybe was the only state that did ranked choice voting. But it also kinda sounds like this new system supercedes it.
https://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/upcoming/rankedchoicefaq.html