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| While political antics dominated in New York and Florida - | 2023-04-06 | 8 | - | democracy | ||||||
| A message from fairvote about ranked-choice voting - | 2023-04-06 | 23 | - | 1 | democracy | |||||
| The time is coming for proportional ranked choice voting! | 2023-11-24 | 9 | - | democracy | ||||||
| Isn't it time to end unlimited dark money in politics? | 2023-11-18 | 5 | - | democracy | ||||||
| Ranked-choice voting could have avoided a constitutional | 2023-10-11 | 5 | - | democracy | ||||||
| Politics is organized conflict | 2023-07-19 | 8 | - | 1 | democracy |
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========== While political antics dominated in New York and Florida - progress prevailed in Wisconsin. 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 ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-04-06 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title While political antics dominated in New York and Florida - topic democracy wordrate 0 words 81 epoch Lifetime ID 1908762779468232 impress 10 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "04/06/2023 21:04" reach 8 title "Gerrymandering Loses Big" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1908762779468232 ========== A message from fairvote about ranked-choice voting - https://fairvote.org/ == 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 == 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 ===== impact 75 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-04-06 ratio 23 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title A message from fairvote about ranked-choice voting - topic democracy wordrate 0 words 753 audclicks 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1908756586135518 impress 37 matchedlinkclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "04/06/2023 21:04" rcs 1 reach 23 reactions 1 title "Improving the quality of American democracy" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1908756586135518 ========== 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 candidate. 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 ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-11-24 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The time is coming for proportional ranked choice voting! topic democracy wordrate 0 words 54 epoch Lifetime ID 733529788821632 impress 25 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/24/2023 20:11" reach 9 title "Many voters say Congress is broken. Could proportional representation fix it?" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/733529788821632 ========== Isn't it time to end unlimited dark money in politics? 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 ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-11-18 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Isn't it time to end unlimited dark money in politics? topic democracy wordrate 0 words 39 epoch Lifetime ID 729968562511088 impress 5 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/18/2023 07:11" reach 5 title "GOP operative found guilty of funneling Russian money to Donald Trump" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/729968562511088 ========== Ranked-choice voting could have avoided a constitutional crisis in the House. 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 ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-10-11 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Ranked-choice voting could have avoided a constitutional topic democracy wordrate 0 words 61 epoch Lifetime ID 708649231309688 impress 10 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/11/2023 20:10" reach 5 title "The “Motion to Vacate” and Electoral Incentives - FairVote" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/708649231309688 ========== Politics is organized conflict 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 ===== comments 1 impact 13 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2023-07-19 ratio 8 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Politics is organized conflict topic democracy wordrate 0 words 126 commentsimpress 1 epoch Lifetime ID 662521239255821 impress 12 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "07/19/2023 13:07" rcs 1 reach 8 title "Opinion | ‘Common sense’ in politics? No thanks." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/662521239255821