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I’m still pissed that Coloradans voted down RCV on the ballot this season.
So did the rest of Oregon and it wasn't even close. Too many people fell for the "it's too confusing" propaganda, which is just another way to call the voters dumb, but maybe they're not wrong.
I don’t know how it’s confusing.
Rank your top 5 favorite foods.
If you can do this, you can do ranked choice voting.
Rank your top 5 favorite foods.
See, you already lost me in all this confusion. I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
Counting to five, too complicated for voters.
Its just corporations having it both ways:
When corporations benefit: Americans can read like 900 pages of fine print a minute and are all legal scholars.
When it doesn't benefit corps: Americans are cows, its offensive you're trying to make these morons fill out multiple choice papers, they might accidentally poke out an eye on the pens.
Reality: people have limits but RCV ballots are not too complicated. We see it all the time with roundabouts. When new roundabout is put in a few drivers take some time to adjust but eventually they figure it out.
The change is harder to deal with than the actual thing.
which is just another way to call the voters dumb, but maybe they're not wrong.
Given the outcome of the federal election, I'm increasingly convinced of that point.
Missouri too 😭 ... Well, worse. Missouri made it illegal.
Maybe it's because I grew up in Illinois, but Missouri has been giving me whiplash over the last several years. I'd expect the kinda politics coming out of there from Florida, not a Midwestern state.
Maybe it’s me being from Ohio, but what’s the difference anymore?
The word isn't out on it yet. Not really. It's pretty academic.
Tell people it solves this problem: https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo
arg. had this discussion about how Canada voted it down a few years back also because "too confusing."
like, maybe there were too many options but I knew we needed to pick any of them instead of keeping the same bullshit system that has always required lesser of evil voting.
arg. people are so fickle and ignorant.