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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.

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andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

African Americans were supposed to be given the right to vote after abolition.

There was a brief period of time during Reconstruction where that happened. However, many states came up with complicated contrivances to make it impossible to vote - poll taxes, “literacy tests,” etc. Effectively, it was a right solely on paper until LBJ in the 60s. Conservatives throwing a massive fit about this is why we have the insane fascistic Right we do right now - they were pro public education until Black kids got to go to the same kids as white kids.

Women weren’t guaranteed the right to vote until 1920. Conservatives today are trying to revoke the 19th amendment and undo that.

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Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yes, there’s tons of things that make the process unfair, but does that make the system not be a democracy? It’s a flawed one, one that basically only allows white dudes to vote, but the system is still a democracy.

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- stelelor@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  What if only people who make over $500k annually can vote? Is that still a democracy?
  
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  - Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I get you’re referring to a plutocracy. The question is if the US is so far gone that it’s out of flawed democracy territory - the lines are definitely blurred and I’d argue it depends on the state.
    
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- eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Blocked the right to vote for one sex
  
  Blocked the right to vote for non-whites
  
  Polls taxes blocked the right to vote for non-whites and the poor
  
  Excluded Natives from voting
  
  The first vote for the president had less than 1% of Americans vote, Washington running unopposed for his terms
  
  Voter ID laws are a tax on the poor
  
  Gerrymandering where the politicians choose the voters.
  
  Electoral college
  
  No time off for voting, meaning the working poor aren’t likely to vote
  
  Voting by mail blocked by most states, the ones that the EC weighs unequally
  
  Yeah, democracy.
  
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