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minus-squareCmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down1·28 days agoI live in uber-blue Oregon and the Dem politicians here rallied against it and got it defeated on the 2024 ballot.
minus-squareStovetop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·28 days agoSame here in Massachusetts back in 2020. It’s not necessarily a GOP vs Dem issue, it’s dominant parties worried that giving voters more choice will weaken their control.
minus-squarecrystalmerchant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·28 days agoWe have it for Portland though! And it’s working
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-227 days agoIf it’s working, they’ll get rid of it sooner or later.
minus-squareMontagge@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·28 days agoBullshit https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_Measure_117,_Ranked-Choice_Voting_for_Federal_and_State_Elections_Measure_(2024)#Support
minus-squareCmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-228 days agoWhat’s bullshit? 4 out of 18 Democratic state senators claimed to support it and 14 out of 36 Democratic state reps claimed to support it. Only 3 Republican state legislators opposed it so Republicans must have been in favor of it too, right?
I live in uber-blue Oregon and the Dem politicians here rallied against it and got it defeated on the 2024 ballot.
Same here in Massachusetts back in 2020.
It’s not necessarily a GOP vs Dem issue, it’s dominant parties worried that giving voters more choice will weaken their control.
We have it for Portland though! And it’s working
If it’s working, they’ll get rid of it sooner or later.
Bullshit
https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_Measure_117,_Ranked-Choice_Voting_for_Federal_and_State_Elections_Measure_(2024)#Support
What’s bullshit? 4 out of 18 Democratic state senators claimed to support it and 14 out of 36 Democratic state reps claimed to support it.
Only 3 Republican state legislators opposed it so Republicans must have been in favor of it too, right?