• runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      38
      ·
      4 days ago

      Ranked choice voting allows you to rank each candidate in order of preference. This voting style is picking up steam in local and state level community initiatives, and is likely to allow the US to break from a 2 party system.

      Change is scary to Republicans so they are trying to vilify it and ban it for federal elections.

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

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        2 days ago

        It’s not change that scares them. It’s that ranked choice voting will take away a lot of their power and gives third parties a significant piece of their pie. Can’t have that, now.

    • jagged_circle@feddit.nl
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      3 days ago

      Ranked Choice voting is how you have a democracy. It avoids situations like the US has where two very similar conservative parties run against each other, and there’s no way to elect a progressive party.