Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.

LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Does it also shock you that Iowa is on the short list to do the same?

  www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1848744

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  • LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nope. I live in Minnesota and I’m well aware of what I.O.W.A. stands for.

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    • BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m curious what you got for I.O.W.A. I hate this place, so I love anything that bags on us.

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      • LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Idiots out wandering around. Not everybody in the state is an idiot but the ones that are, are out wandering around.

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      • chickenf622@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’ve always known it as “Idiots Out Wandering Around”

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• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For those non-USians reading this, the pattern is: states which tend to vote Republican and thus have majority Republican governance. So called “red states”.

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’d think it would be democrats worried about another Bernie Sanders coming along.

  What is it the republicans are worried about with RCV?

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  • JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The left wing vote is split, so the Republicans can win just by getting the largest number of votes with first-past-the-post.

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  • LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t know because they shouldn’t be.

    Republicans like Senator Tom Cotton and Donald Trump have garnered headlines for stating their opposition to ranked choice voting after election results didn’t turn out exactly as they hoped. Their preferred candidates, Sarah Palin in the House and Kelly Tshibaka in the Senate, didn’t win. Both are Republicans. So, they claim (loudly) that RCV is biased against Republicans or “rigged.”

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  • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The magas only gained their stranglehold on the party, despite being a minority, due to the neocons splitting their primary ballots.

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    • ZephyrXero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They gained their stranglehold from 20+ years of systematic takeover. The Tea Party became MAGA. It didn’t happen over night

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      • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I never said it did. First past the post is what allowed that to happen.

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• Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why did you add like a hundred spaces in front of the list of states? That makes it a code block that requires tons of horizontal scrolling to read. I didn’t even recognize it as such at first.

  You know Lemmy has spoiler syntax, right? If that’s what you were going for?

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