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While political antics dominated in New York and Florida -
progress prevailed in Wiscons

 https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/gerrymandering-loses-big

This is ultimately a bigger deal than Trump's sorry fate.
The whole point of gerrymandering is to protect candidates
willing to defend minority rule - from the majority of
voters - with as few competitive districts as possible,
so that only the party primary election matters.

Perhaps more GOP candidates in competitive districts
will realize that the Trump base is a minority in the
whole electorate.

#PS1democracy


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A message from fairvote about ranked-choice votin

 https://fairvote.org/

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Will the 2024 presidential election be “spoiled”?

Voting won’t begin for another year, but the accusations
are already flying.

Take No Labels, an organization laying the groundwork
in states across the country for an alternative to
major-party nominees like Donald Trump and Joe Biden. As
the well-financed campaign has drawn attention in recent
days, center-left think tank Third Way circulated a memo
arguing the ticket would help Donald Trump win a new term
by taking away more votes from Joe Biden. No Labels’
social media mentions have recently been flooded with
claims that it is secretly a pro-Republican organization.

On the flipside, consider former Representative Liz Cheney
(R-WY), who is rumored to be thinking about an independent
run for president. It isn’t clear which party she would
“take away more votes” from, but Republicans and
Democrats alike are afraid it will be theirs.

And you can be sure that the usual finger-pointing will
be directed to the Green Party nominee for cutting into
the Democratic vote, and the Libertarian Party nominee
for undermining Republicans.

In a well-functioning democracy, candidates would be
evaluated on the quality of their ideas, not dismissed over
strategic considerations. The major parties wouldn’t
feel so vulnerable to decisions of other candidates they
can’t control. But because of our broken, single-choice
election system, this isn’t a well-functioning democracy.

We have a proven solution to the problem: ranked choice
voting (RCV). RCV will be used in the presidential election
in Maine and Alaska in 2024 and would let all voters,
from anywhere on the political spectrum, cast their vote
for their favorite candidate without fear of “playing
spoiler.” RCV would let all candidates, no matter their
party, get a fair shake and a chance to share their ideas.

Surprise, surprise: Runoffs are still terrible.

Across the country, dozens of major cities and states have
tried to solve the “vote-splitting problem” with runoff
elections. Yet runoffs come with their own major drawbacks
– all of which ranked choice voting would solve.

First, many voters still feel “left out” of the
results. Just look at Denver’s mayoral election
yesterday, where the leading candidates have just 25% and
22% of the vote. When voters return to the polls in June,
a majority of them won’t see their favorite candidate
on the runoff ballot.

Second, voters are asked to return to the polls a second
time to vote on the same candidates – and many of them
don’t. In its city council runoffs just last month,
Phoenix, AZ experienced a nearly 50% decline in turnout
from the initial round of voting. One of the winning
candidates had fewer votes in the runoff than her rival
did in the general election! (Remarkably, this actually
happens pretty frequently.)

Third, runoffs lead to additional weeks of toxic, negative
campaigns, none of which is necessary. Chicago just
completed its runoff elections five weeks after the first
round, during which time candidates and their supporters
went on the attack. Chicago’s police union leader even
warned of “blood in the streets” if candidate Brandon
Johnson was elected mayor.

Finally, runoffs are very, very expensive. According to
research by FairVote and Third Way, runoff elections
frequently cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to
local communities – and that can grow to millions in
large cities. In cases like New York City’s 2013 Public
Advocate primary, the runoff cost more than the office’s
entire budget! (New York City has since adopted RCV to
conduct its runoffs instantly and at a lower cost.)

With all that in mind, it’s no wonder Chicago’s
newly elected mayor, his runoff opponent and both leading
mayoral candidates in Denver are supportive of RCV. Denver
wouldn’t be the first city in Colorado to use RCV, and
Chicago wouldn’t be the first in Illinois. In Colorado,
RCV has been adopted in Basalt, Carbondale, Telluride,
Boulder, Broomfield, and Fort Collins. In 2022, Evanston
became the first community in Illinois to adopt RCV.

The biggest cities in seven states already use
RCV. Yesterday shows that Chicago and Denver should be next

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Ranked-choice voting is confusing - to the political
kingmakers who want to manipulate candidates and elections
to their pre-determined ends.      How can they do that if
the people have a voice in the outcome?    It was an issue
in UC Berkeley student association elections 50 years ago,
and the same disinformation is still being regurgitated.
Ranked-choice voting is still a threat to minority rule,
and the ruling class knows it.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential

#PS1democracy


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The time is coming for proportional ranked choice voting!
But it's coming slowly because every candidate, who
has managed to become a career politician under the
winner-take-all gerrymandered system, sees proportional
ranked choice voting as a career threat, and that
candidate's megadonors see it as a threat to their
investment in that candida

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential

 https://fairvote.org/our-reforms/proportional-ranked-choice-voting/

 https://fairvote.org/our-reforms/fair-representation-act/

 https://www.npr.org/2023/11/18/1194448925/congress-proportional-representation-explainer

#PS1democracy


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Isn't it time to end unlimited dark money in politi

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Promise_(organization)

How Trump gets his campaign funds (and legal defense
funds).

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Butina

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/17/benton-trump-russian-vasilenko-guilty/

And who else has found Trump useful?   Kim, Netanyahu,
MBS, ...

We'll never know if we can't look.

#PS1democracy


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Ranked-choice voting could have avoided a constitutional
crisis in the Hou

 https://fairvote.org/report/the-motion-to-vacate-and-electoral-incentives/

But personality cult candidates oppose ranked-choice
voting, hoping their many opponents will split the vote

against them and insure their victory.    Thus Trumpists
and Putinists like to support minor candidates that enable
minority rule by diluting the opposition - think RKF Jr
and Joe Manchin.      They don't hurt Trump!

#PS1democracy


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Politics is organized confl

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/17/no-labels-manchin-common-sense

And the essence of democratic politics is coming up with
unpalatable compromises - that can pass.     The sausage
making is not pretty or easy and the results never please
everybody, and often nobody.   Sometimes there is no
compromise that can pass.

But there is something to be said for candidates that are
sincerely willing to negotiate and pass those compromises
wherever possible, knowing that they will probably be
one-term office-holders.     That tends to exclude a lot
of would-be career politicians.    And that means that many
well-intentioned legislators are mostly voting on subjects
that they know nothing about, because they haven't been
around long enough.

democracy is the worst form of Government except for all
those other forms that have been tried

#PS1democracy


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