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Re:San Jose police union executive director charged with smu... by pyuser583 on Thursday March 30, 2023 @08:29PM (#35380760)
Last I checked New York had fusion voting. Chicago had fusion voting until the 1990s. California had fusion voting as late as the 1940s - not sure when it ended.

So it’s not as simple as “winner takes all.”

NB: fusion voting is where candidates are endorsed by multiple parties. So you can be a Democrat and a Libertarian.

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Re:San Jose police union executive director charged with smu... by knodi123 on Friday March 31, 2023 @01:06AM (#35382827)
> So it’s not as simple as “winner takes all.”

Yes it is. You just misunderstood what I meant.

from https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/allocation

> All States, except for Maine and Nebraska have a winner-take-all policy where the State looks only at the overall winner of the state-wide popular vote. Maine and Nebraska, however, appoint individual electors based on the winner of the popular vote for each Congressional district and then 2 electors based on the winner of the overall state-wide popular vote.

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Re:San Jose police union executive director charged with smu... by seanmcdirmid on Friday March 31, 2023 @10:54PM (#35396598)
That is only for presidential elections. I assume the original comment covered elections in general. Washington state, for example, has single primaries (top two advance to general election regardless of party) rather than a partisan primary for every election except presidential.
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