Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit
by tjohns on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:52PM
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The real CA Senate vote happened during the June primaries, which decided the candidates that would appear on the November general ballot.
It's actually not a terrible system. A lot of folks are typically reluctant to vote for a third-party candidate because it feels like throwing your vote away.
Instead, CA's new "top two" system gives you a chance to freely vote for a third-party candidate (in the primaries), and if that candidate loses, you get to re-cast your vote for one of the more popular candidates during a second round.
It's just different than what we're used to. It's not perfect (I'd prefer to see something like approval voting, or instant-runoff voting), but I think it's an improvement.
Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit
by lettergram on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @09:05PM
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Requiring vote during primaries and restricting it to the top two is a horrible system. It effectively eliminates competition in politics (which was the point), there are zero additional benefits
Most of us that feel that way either are libertarian (which never has hope of winning anything) or suck it up and vote Republican.
The real issue here is we have no voice, zero. Because both major parties are so ghastly to many Americans that we have to vote for a "lesser evil". I'm proud I voted libertarian to at least keep my conscience as clean as I could.
FYI I'm in California, so literally we had choices between two Democrats with the same views for.. Senate was it? Either way, my vote didn't matter