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.

• Zexks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So I looked into this being from Kansas it kind of pissed me off. Turns out she won with like 49% where the Rs got only 47 and two different third parties took about 4%. So Rs were pushing for it thinking those that cast third party would put them next over the Dem, while calling them wasted and spoiled votes. So this was proposed by the Wichita mayor under the guise that RCV was too complicated for people to understand, and likely kelly signed the ban because of fear she might lose her minor majority. Total fucking bullshit politics as usual.

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  • eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So this was proposed by the Wichita mayor under the guise that RCV was too complicated for people to understand, and likely kelly signed the ban because of fear she might lose her minor majority. Total fucking bullshit politics as usual.

    Sounds like them. Capitulating to Republicans because of fear.

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• eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  While Kansas has a Democratic governor, I wouldn’t call it a blue state.

  Ah so the one time it happened it doesn’t count.

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  • 13igTyme@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    By that logic, California is a red state because Schwarzenegger was Governor at one point.

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    • eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes it was. California had a Republican in charge the people liked and kept around. Only really because he was an actor.

      If Schwarzenegger was a random nobody, he wouldn’t have won the recall.

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      • 13igTyme@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So California is a red state? Got it.

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