#rankedballot — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rankedballot, aggregated by home.social.
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With the completion of any political party leadership election, I hope everyone asks their parties, MPs and candidates…
"Why can't we all have ranked ballot in our general elections!? "
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City election day in Minneapolis. I picked three DFLers (out of many) for mayor on the ranked choice ballot. I was tempted to waste my 3rd choice on some guy named Wagner representing the "Why not Wagner" party. Because it made me chuckle. But I went to his website, and it wouldn't load. So that's why not Wagner. That's why not.
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Listening to #NPR while I do some indoor work (raining today).
Sounds like the US is headed to municipal elections everywhere shortly. Two interesting points:
#Mamdani is poised to win the NYC mayorship. (Yay!) and…
#Minneapolis is using #RankedBallot voting. Glad to see that (slowly) moving forward! Maybe some other US cities too?My strong belief is that ranked ballot is perhaps the only thing that'll save democracy from creeping authoritarianism and associated electoral manipulation.
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Best path forward for Canada would be for NDP and Liberals to announce a temporary merger, with the sole goal of installing a #RankedBallot system to end #FPTP.
That done, the parties could separate and we could avoid both hells – sliding into a two-party system and a fascist conservative majority.
Even the conservatives themselves would likely split into sane vs MAGA-wannabe groups and we'd eventually have a tapestry of representation instead of perpetual polarization.
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Just words in a toot, but feeling it's a profoundly important point:
What's changed in #democracy is that it may now be more important that our voting processes identify the person that the majority believes must NOT win, rather than anoint the "uniquely perfect" candidate for the job.
Ranked ballot gets to that goal, eliminating vote splitting, capturing consensus on our anyone-but-that-person sentiments.
It could be the only thing that saves civilization in the 21st century.
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CW: #onPoli Liberal leadership election today
Well, that seals it: Hsu is not my 2nd choice:
"Hsu said he’d seen a recent bump in first-ballot support and donations and had been contacting voters — including going door-to-door in key ridings — and converting Crombie supporters to his camp."
Don't forget to vote, today only (or yesterday).
My choices:
#3 is Hsu
#4 is Crombie (a.k.a. Ford-in-a-dress)#onPoli #Liberalparty #electionReform #rankedBallot https://mastodon.bot/@Trillium/111476594537249111
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Toronto election: Does Olivia Chow’s win add up? | The Star https://bit.ly/3NuioyV #topoli #ElectoralReform #TorontoMayor #RankedBallot #OliviaChow #Toronto #onpoli @ontariogreens @onpoli
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@CanadianCrone @gemelliz @iamdavidmiller No, leaders failed to make the case to voters. Leaders can do better. Look at who was up and who was down in the 2022 vote count. Progressvie parties can work together, and Conservatives will be done if they do. Blaming voters is not a strategy for success. People need to think realistically about 2026. If leaders want a rerun of 2022, all they have to do is repeat what they did last year. A #rankedballot system would help. #onpoli
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@gemelliz @automandan53 It might not be so bad if #Toronto were using a #RankedBallot but the #DougFord government said it's "not the time". #VoteTO #onpoli https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ford-government-moves-to-scrap-ranked-ballot-elections-for-ontario-municipalities-1.5153197
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@DavidM_yeg @ChrisH_Prog Did some digging and it's actually not a total wash for the #NDP. #PhillippeJFournier did a projection for @macleans of how a #RankedBallot would have affected the 2019 #Canada election results. Both the #NDP and the #Liberal parties would have picked up seats, at the expense of the #Conservative and #BlocQuebecois parties. Not neartly enough to be a proportional result, though. #cdnpoli https://macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/who-wins-election-2019-under-a-ranked-ballot-system/
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@DavidM_yeg @ChrisH_Prog The problem with a system like you describe, which I think fits the description of a #RankedBallot, is that it would make things worse. When there's no clear winner, the losing candidate's votes will mostly end up supporting the "consensus" candidate as you put it. In present day #Canada that will typically be #Liberal as #Conservative candidates will rarely be second choice.
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@ap236 @canadiangreens @cdnpoli Doesn't hurt to keep the pressure on but I doubt it would sway #JustinTrudeau's "my way or the highway" preference for #RankedBallot's. He knows #ProportionalRepresentation will cost #Liberal seats so it's a non-starter https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/justin-trudeau-electoral-reform-broken-promise