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"If you didn't want fascism you should have voted!" (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Liz@midwest.social 5 points 3 days ago (10 children)

I mean, I want to replace FPTP though. Any kind of proportional system is ideal, but Sequential Proportional Approval Voting is ideal.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Democrats hugely benefit from FPTP so they will never advocate for replacing it.

It is a catch22 where the only answer is to call the Democrats bluff and vote for other parties until the Democrats cave to voter demands.

Democrats also refuse to acknowledge that not voting for them is the only way left to pressure them.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hasn't it been replaced in Maine and alaska?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

As soon as it got a slight amount of traction both sides of the oligarchy started attacking it.

Case in point as user pointed out down below:

Gavin Newsom vetoes bill to allow ranked-choice voting throughout California

More than 17 years after San Francisco approved ranked-choice voting over the objections of then-Supervisor Gavin Newsom, California’s first-year governor got a chance for some payback, vetoing a bill that would have allowed more cities, counties and school districts across the state to switch to the voting system.

The bill, SB212 by state Sen. Ben Allen, D-Santa Monica, was overwhelmingly approved by both the state Senate and the Assembly. An analysis of the bill found no opposition.

“Ranked choice is an experiment that has been tried in several charter cities in California,” Newsom said in his veto message Sunday. “Where it has been implemented, I am concerned that it has often led to voter confusion and that the promise that ranked-choice voting leads to greater democracy is not necessarily fulfilled.”

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