CoderSupreme@programming.dev to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-218 days agoWhy do American ballots have more than two choices, when the news media has spent their time pretending there are only two?programming.devimagemessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1120arrow-down140file-text
arrow-up180arrow-down1imageWhy do American ballots have more than two choices, when the news media has spent their time pretending there are only two?programming.devCoderSupreme@programming.dev to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-218 days agomessage-square49fedilinkfile-text
When you get your ballot and there’s 10 choices but all year the media pretends there’s only two, that should tell you something’s seriously broken
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down2·19 days agoyep. ranked choice and removing party affiliation from ballots would go a long way to help this so there is a solution. too bad no politicians will touch it because it would hinder their golden ‘2 party stranglehold’ goose
minus-squarethe_artic_one@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-219 days agoThankfully we can bypass the politicians and implement a better voting system via citizen ballot initiatives in most states. Maine and Alaska have already adopted ranked choice voting via ballot initiatives.
yep. ranked choice and removing party affiliation from ballots would go a long way to help this
so there is a solution. too bad no politicians will touch it because it would hinder their golden ‘2 party stranglehold’ goose
Thankfully we can bypass the politicians and implement a better voting system via citizen ballot initiatives in most states. Maine and Alaska have already adopted ranked choice voting via ballot initiatives.