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minus-squareORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up36·1 day agoAfter Mamdani, they’re scared as fuck of ranked choice elections.
minus-squareteawrecks@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·edit-21 day agoThey already were. The right has been sneaking bans on ranked choice voting into many red state legislations for many years now. You may be thinking “how could they convince people to vote against ranked choice voting?!” By piggybacking on xenophobia of course!
minus-squareneukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoEven though that wouldn’t have mattered in his case. He would have won the primary without the need for ranked choice.
minus-squareuuldika@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 day agoarguably ranked choice gave voters the confidence to pick the candidate that won an outright majority.
After Mamdani, they’re scared as fuck of ranked choice elections.
They already were. The right has been sneaking bans on ranked choice voting into many red state legislations for many years now.
You may be thinking “how could they convince people to vote against ranked choice voting?!” By piggybacking on xenophobia of course!
Even though that wouldn’t have mattered in his case. He would have won the primary without the need for ranked choice.
arguably ranked choice gave voters the confidence to pick the candidate that won an outright majority.
That’s a fair point.