Not the biggest fan of HRW these days but even they know Houthis are attacking civilian ships along with commercial vessels.
Biden can only do so much. But all of our NATO allies transport goods through the lanes. Using our military to stop them is not "expanding the conflict." It is stopping terrorists from killing innocent sailors and civilians and from disrupting the world economy.
@colo_lee@GreenFire@TonyStark@72mz@ArenaCops#RCV would let me vote my heart and my mind.
It would also end third parties' power to be spoilers, leaving them nothing but also-rans, maybe not a net gain for their adherents.
My hope for #RCV is that it would increase 3rd party clout without spoiling outcomes. A Democratic candidate who can see her victory resulted from being the 2nd choice of a big bloc of Greens might actually govern accordingly.
We need to get over the idea that voting is a way for us to express our personal ideals. Voting is one move in a chess game that never ends—one each voter plays with a hundred million other voters. You can't win on the first move, and if you're in a bad board position it may take a long time to get out of it. (Narrator voice: we're in a bad board position, in many ways.)
If you don't play, though, or don't make alliances with other players, you're likely to lose. Losing now will be very bad.
#RCV is having a pretty big surge of support lately so there is hope that it will reach a tipping point soon.
Spreading the word and supporting local efforts for adoption helps us get there.
"in a true democracy, you have more than 2 parties."
yes! with ranked choice voting. not with fptp and duverger's law
we have ranked choice in nyc, maine, etc. mostly through democratic efforts while GOP engages in voter suppression. we get more #rcv by voting #democrat and demanding they deliver
and that is how you get genuine viable third parties
not the current spoiler role that is all that third parties perform in our current system
@accretionist@zout@randahl a quibble: the Netherlands uses party-list proportional representation, which is a more “pure” form of proportional representation than #RCV in that you’re voting for party slates, not individuals. But your point about the left being divided is definitely correct, no matter the election system. It’s just worse by far in FPTP systems like the US, UK or Canada. I’d personally rather have #PartyListPR in part or in full tbh
but a 2 party system is locked in because of #FPTP voting. 3rd parties can never dominate: duverger's law. a 3rd party vote is self-destruction of your own interests
#usa#americans: ranked choice is slowly creeping in, mostly spearheaded by #democrats. so who are you going to #vote for if you want robust 3rd parties?
The (paper) voter guide only lists my city council candidates. It does not list civil court judges or anyone else who might be on the ballot. You have to know to go to NYC DOE's website, go to "find my pollsite/view sample ballot" so see who's actually on the ballot.
You've gotta do this in advance of going to your poll site, and then (w/ #RCV) memorize the order you want to vote for candidates in.
(my previous go-to video was by the inimitable CGP Grey, and it's still great if you want more details about the mechanics of STV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI)
Yesterday the Fair Representation Act was re-introduced in Congress! This reform will stop gerrymandering and make the House of Representatives more competitive and more responsive to voters.
#RankedChoiceVoting (#RCV) is so easy it can be explained in 1 toot. Simply rank candidates in your order of preference; 1st favorite, 2nd favorite, etc. A candidate has to get >50% of the vote to win. If they don't there is an instant runoff (shown below) Source: http://linktr.ee/voterchoiceaz
Click through to start the video at 1:13:00 or so (to skip right to the RCV problems).
I'm now a fan of #STAR#voting. The part where Alameda County screwed up their #RCV counts and actually seated the wrong candidate, discovering their fuck up a month later is just.. wow.
Great that #Oregon voters will have an opportunity to adopt #RankedChoiceVoting for local and statewide primary and general elections in 2024. One thing I'm afraid they're overlooking: The Presidential electors chosen by #RCV need to be freed up to vote for their assigned candidate OR a different candidate, perhaps one chosen by their assigned candidate. Otherwise OR voters would fear that voting for a third-party candidate would deprive their preferred major-party candidate of electoral votes.
We won't have #RCV in all 50 states for the 2024 election. But #CornelWest and #MarianneWilliamson support RCV, and in that sense are at least hinting that they don't want to be spoiler candidates who hand the election to #Republicans. Of course they may be spoiler candidates anyway. But is RFK even hinting that he doesn't want to be a spoiler candidate?
A victory for the RCV campaign in November 2024 would be a significant breakthrough for voting justice, as it would liberate voters in Oregon from being required to vote for just one candidate.
@interfluidity no mention of #rankedChoice?
Wouldn't having three choices be just as good? Approval voting, as you have described it, still involves a binary approve/disapprove, and I am afraid it would not be enough to break up the parties. Just more candidates divided along the same lines? I want to avoid that binary choice.
I would add to #rcv a single vote against someone, to be counted along with first choices, increasing the likelihood that a first choice winner would not be divisive.
I'm a huge fan of #RankedChoiceVoting . Apparently, it's going to be on the ballot in Oregon in November 2024, and will apply to all statewide and federal elections including primaries. It's a huge boost for democracy, as it allows people to move past the party duopoly of Dem/GOP and vote for 3rd party candidates without fear of giving the election away to the greater of 2 evils.
Fun fact, I helped with the campaign to get #RCV passed in Benton County, Oregon in 2016.
In Arizona, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Oregon and Nevada initiatives are afoot to institute ✅ non-partisan primary elections, some involving ranked choice voting
Whereas Ohio Republicans are seeking to ❌ close their state's primaries
I love how low-key awesome Portland, Maine is at explaining #RCV.
In the end, if you want to pop the hood you can. But that line is all most people need to know.
6% of six states (www.axios.com)
The titanic Biden-Trump election likely will be decided by roughly 6% of voters in just six states, top strategists in both parties tell us.
Oregon voters will soon get to decide whether to adopt ranked choice voting statewide (www.nwprogressive.org)
A victory for the RCV campaign in November 2024 would be a significant breakthrough for voting justice, as it would liberate voters in Oregon from being required to vote for just one candidate.