CoderSupreme@programming.dev to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-26 months agoWhy do American ballots have more than two choices, when the news media has spent their time pretending there are only two?programming.devimagemessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down140file-text
arrow-up174arrow-down1imageWhy do American ballots have more than two choices, when the news media has spent their time pretending there are only two?programming.devCoderSupreme@programming.dev to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-26 months agomessage-square49fedilinkfile-text
When you get your ballot and there’s 10 choices but all year the media pretends there’s only two, that should tell you something’s seriously broken
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down2·6 months agoyep. ranked choice and removing party affiliation from ballots would go a long way to help this so there is a solution. too bad no politicians will touch it because it would hinder their golden ‘2 party stranglehold’ goose
minus-squarethe_artic_one@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·6 months agoThankfully we can bypass the politicians and implement a better voting system via citizen ballot initiatives in most states.
yep. ranked choice and removing party affiliation from ballots would go a long way to help this
so there is a solution. too bad no politicians will touch it because it would hinder their golden ‘2 party stranglehold’ goose
Thankfully we can bypass the politicians and implement a better voting system via citizen ballot initiatives in most states.