Is it time to make Election Day a federal holiday? 🗳️ Some say it would boost voter turnout and align the U.S. with other democracies, while others argue it could create challenges for hourly workers and cost millions. Dive into the debate over whether a federal voting holiday is the best way to strengthen democracy or if there are better solutions. Check out the full breakdown!

https://ace-usa.org/blog/research/research-votingrights/should-election-day-become-a-federal-holiday-weighing-the-benefits-and-drawbacks/

  • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    If a majority of people vote Republican and they win, that’s a good thing. It seems like you don’t really understand ranked choice voting. It’s not perfect but it’s absolutely better than our current system.

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      3 months ago

      I do understand Ranked Choice, and understand that it’s actually worse than our current system except for one small area. And that’s the elimination of non-viable spoiler parties.

      Ranked Choice eliminates them from consideration.

      As to its real world application, Ranked Choice is constantly fucking up elections.

      https://electowiki.org/wiki/2009_Burlington_mayoral_election

      If you’ll notice in that breakdown, the number of exhausted ballots was twice the margin of victory.

      All this stems from the fact that RCV is really just First Past the Post, but done a bunch of times on a single ballot.

      You cannot solve the problems of plurality by iterating plurality.

      It’s a bad system that is, in many ways, worse than the one we already have.