65% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.

  • Kerred@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For anyone living in Utah, a bill to enable Ranked Choice voting will be in November 2023.

    So anyone there please register to vote sooner rather than later.

    Currently people are being told it’s too confusing and too liberal, so they really could be more young people votes to help the cause.

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      1 year ago

      RCV is a rebrand of the voting method IRV, which was used by many cities in the early 20th century. Due to inconsistent results, it was repealed. So, unfortunately, conservatives have a leg to stand on when they attack RCV.

      For clarity: their specific attacks take things to the extreme and often have some racist underpinnings, but there is a kernel of truth to attacking specifically on the method itself.

      That is why I support something like STAR voting, it doesn’t suffer from many of RCV’s issues

      I wish your ballot measure luck however, because at the end of the day it still is, mildly better than FPTP