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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 128 points 6 days ago (25 children)

!rcv@ponder.cat

Any third party that's telling you to vote for them under FPTP, but isn't heavily promoting RCV to fix the system, isn't trying to win. They're trying to spoil the FPTP election.

RCV is already law in a surprisingly large number of places. It may change the majority in the house in this upcoming election, because the difference in vote-counting within the two states that use it for US congressional elections might be enough to change the razor-thin outcome.

RCV is on the ballot, in one form or another, in 7 states and DC this year. Go vote. You might be able to fix the system, and move toward the future that all the people in this thread who are being vocal about Jill Stein say that they want. Remember back when marijuana was illegal? That changed. This can change too, and it would be glorious, for a lot of important goals that a lot of people claiming to support Jill Stein claim they're supportive of. It would be practical and realistic. It would work.

Anyone in this thread who is saying Jill Stein is extremely important, but haven't been saying anything about ranked choice voting or changing the voting system to make third parties realistic: Why? What's your goal, why did you make that decision about your priorities?

The answer is obvious, of course. But it's fun to ask.

@anticolonialist@lemmy.world, why?

I'll add more @s as more people pipe up. They always do.

Register and vote, for RCV as well as for Harris. We have 25 more days.

https://www.vote.org/

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[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 71 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (11 children)

2016 Michgan election results

Michigan 2016

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 24 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (31 children)

I don't understand why it is taken for granted that if Stein wasn't a candidate the people who vote for her would be voting for the Democrats instead. Just as likely they would not vote at all or vote for some other protest candidate.

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[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 37 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

2016 Pennsylvania results

Pennsylvania 2016

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[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

2016 Wisconsin election results

Wisconsin 2016.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

Kamala Harris can win over all of those Jill Stein voters with a single sentence.

Stupid Jill Stein's entire campaign is based on the premise that Democrats would keep a genocide going for an entire year into election season.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago (16 children)

Let’s completely forget everything but the election for this hypothetical. Do you think Harris coming out and saying “I will immediately stop supporting Israel” she will automatically win? Or do you think it’s more likely the Jewish community would condemn her words and move over to the rubber stamp in chief who would give Israel even more support with fewer conditions? (Ignoring the personal favors he asks for of course.)

Yall act like this is a simple black and white issue, when it’s obviously not. Even when you boil it down to “just” the election.

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