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Tinker ☀️
@tinker@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

A key part of the New York City mayoral races was Ranked Choice Voting.

I'm not seeing many news articles mention this yet (correct me if I'm wrong though!).

Ranked choice let's us vote first for who we actually want.... and then put in backup votes for "good enough" candidates and allows us to compromise and find common ground.

It destroys the concepts of "lesser of two evils" and "throwing away your vote".

I hope we see Ranked Choice voting everywhere.

#newYork#NYC#NYCMayor#ZohranMamdani

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pospi
@pospi@kolektiva.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago
@tinker in Australia we call this everyday democracy (OK it's actually called "preferential voting") and uhhh, sad to report that it still hasn't saved us from a broken 2 party system where both parties are wholesale selling our country to mining interests and bootlicking the US fascist ethnostate
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Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago
@tinker

Koch Network is spending hugely to thwart all election & voting reforms

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/inside-the-koch-backed-effort-to-block-the-largest-election-reform-bill-in-half-a-century

https://www.wifr.com/2025/04/23/illinois-voting-advocates-worry-bill-requiring-citizenship-proof-vote/

https://readsludge.com/2024/11/04/koch-super-pac-shatters-its-election-spending-record/

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/nyregion/absentee-ballots-louis-koch-elections.html

MAGA billionaires want voting reductions, not expansions

These include voter suppression tactics like election day violence, election denial, voter ID laws, the "war on drugs", the Dobbs decision, ICE raids, Russian election interference, gerrymandering, Repeal the 19th Amendment disinformation, & Jan 6 Big Lie

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Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/yes-elon-musk-vote-buying-is-against-law-federal-wisconsin

Public admission of culpability:
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/elon-musk-trump-election-bill

What billionaires hope to gain...

https://time.com/7209181/fossil-fuel-billionaires-wealth-trump-inauguration/

https://thenightly.com.au/opinion/david-koch-if-he-keeps-his-election-promises-trump-20-could-bring-sky-high-inflation-back-to-us-economy-c-17136261

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PeachMcD
@PeachMcD@union.place replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago
@tinker

The #CorporateDemocrats know #RankedCoiceVoting spells their demise

We're Not THEM is all they've got

#Berniecrats win when the people are heard
#AOC2028
No More #VichyDemocrats
#Boycott#QuislingMedia

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