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Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ... by pcmaffey on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:56PM (#24945008)
Makes me wonder how federal ballot initiatives might play out, and why they don't exist...
Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ... by SllX on Friday October 30, 2020 @02:40PM (#24945487)
The long and the short of it is there’s no provision in the Constitution. The powers of Congress are a whitelist, and it would be a stretch even for some of the stretchier clauses in there to allow for Federal ballot initiatives.

That said, I wouldn’t support it. I view State-level ballot initiatives as an anti-feature, at least in my native California. Wouldn’t want that crap making it up to the Federal level.

Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ... by autumn_unlaces on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:14PM (#24945780)
National Initiative is an existing proposal for doing just that which was proposed by Mike Gravel. Tom Steyer included it in his 2020 platform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_initiative