no one fucking told me about states banning RCV during all that yapping on here about how i should VOTE THIRD PARTY OR ELSE IM COMPLICIT in the DNCs CRIMES

it may or may not be joever, very blackpilled at this moment

edit it’s actually 10 states. 5 in the past two months.

  • Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    If enough people do it over time I wouldn’t think so right?

    Each time they would win over and over more seats.

    But of course that would require voters to recognize the situation, take the L and keep on continuing voting the third party

      • Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        But that’s the point of a new party, to split the votes. In the end you need to create a wedge big enough that neither side can ignore

        But again, that takes way too much from people. They need to take the L a few times before actually pulling something worthwhile

      • PeggyLouBaldwin@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        that video illustrates the problem with strategic voting: it consolidates parties. the lesson you sohuld learn from it is that strategic voting is actually voting against your own interest.

        • nek0d3r@lemmy.world
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          5 months ago

          Without a better voting system, there’s not really much choice otherwise. Voting third party requires a majority of voters to not only know the downsides of the system and style of voting, but also to trust that the rest of that majority are going to both know and act on that before they act that way themselves. Otherwise it would just be contributing to the spoiler effect. It would be like trying to pause a game of Fortnite, or convincing states to cast electoral votes according to the national popular vote without, I don’t know, some sort of National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.