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It seems nobody cares about that sort of thing anymore. Voters vote “my guy” / “my tribe” and ignore the rest. And as long as the GOP can be blackmailed by the Trump faction, it won’t move a whole lot.



Make political parties less important by switching out the First Past the Post voting system mosts states use for something like Ranked Choice voting.

Introduce competition in the electoral process.

A couple states already changed how they vote. We have the power.

Edit: couldn't resist linking CGP Grey, my favorite youtuber

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo


Approval voting is simpler to understand, simpler to implement, and leaves people more satisfied on the whole. I think it's a better and more achievable goal than ranked-choice systems as a replacement for our utterly broken FPTP system.

https://ncase.me/ballot/


Thanks for the video, I really hope ranked choice will gain in popularity!




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