Wasn’t even close. 60/40.

  • @Nurgus
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    We had a referendum on ranked choice voting (referred to as AV at the time) here in the UK some years ago. The campaign against it was shocking. Well funded and extremely vocal. Bizarre lies and misinformation.

    Someome really hates changing FPTP.

    • @Modern_medicine_isnt
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      Reducing extremism, reduces the impact of advertising, which means business loses influence… and the rich lose influence. So that is who hates ranked choice voting.

      • @[email protected]
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        23 hours ago

        you would think even If you hated Harris you would at least vote for more dinner options.

    • stebo
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      People who want their party to stay in power

        • @pyre
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          yeah they could but now they will.

        • stebo
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          with other voting systems, third parties could gain more power (as intended), which means that the current duopoly would lose power, and they don’t want that

          • @[email protected]
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            310 hours ago

            They must also only order big macs and never change it up. It would be nice to see who people really want.

    • @[email protected]
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      I don’t know anything about the campaign in Oregon, but most people are scared of things they aren’t familiar with.

      Also I’m guessing neither party really supported this much, since they benefit from first-past-the-post.

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        610 hours ago

        Wonder what the campaign against it was. This seems like a easy win. It’s not even a religious thing like pro-choice.

        • @evidences
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          Probably just a bunch of bullshit falsehoods, look at the campaign against issue 1 in Ohio. It was a change to the state constitution to put a citizen run commission in place to draw maps for voting districts and Republicans ran a campaign that was just straight up lying about what the issue was about. Then even threw misleading ballot language on the ballot, I doubt anyone read the ballot language though because it was a small novel.

          • @[email protected]
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            Issue 1 took up the entire back page of my ballot yesterday and was just nonsensical legalese. People voted on it based on how there prefered candidates told them to, and we all saw who their preferred candidates were last night.

        • @[email protected]
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          Politics (especially among republicans) has become a bit religious, so it’s not really THAT different I guess

  • @Bustedknuckles
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    I’m revising my estimation of the electorate a lot tonight

    • @seaQueue
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      Every time I think the rubes couldn’t possibly be stupider we have an election and I’m proved wrong

      • @[email protected]
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        35 hours ago

        I never heard that word I think (not a native speaker) and DDG only brings up some band, which I don’t think you mean here. What are the rubes?