Re:Ranked-Choice Voting Is More Democratic, Not Less
by throw0101a on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @12:58PM
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> (1) Why would the state residents vote for a state legislature that takes away human rights from them?
(a) That assumes they get to vote: see voter suppression.
(b) Plenty of folks vote for things that are against their own interests:
> Working-class Americans who voted for Donald J. Trump continue to approve of him as president, even though he supported a health care bill that would disproportionately hurt them.
(a) That assumes they get to vote: see voter suppression.
(b) Plenty of folks vote for things that are against their own interests:
> Working-class Americans who voted for Donald J. Trump continue to approve of him as president, even though he supported a health care bill that would disproportionately hurt them.
* https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/upshot/why-americans-vote...
* https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jun/05/why-working-...
* https://thehill.com/opinion/james-carville/227350-james-carv...