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Re:I Saw the Hollowness Inside Andrew Yang’s New Third Party by chargingmarmot on Thursday September 14, 2023 @02:59PM (#37513242)
I would really like to see some form of electoral reform passed that would reduce spoiler effects, make third party movements more viable, and change the incentives for politicians in elections (e.g. instant runoff voting as endorsed by https://fairvote.org/ or https://cfer.org/ ; or proportional representation ).

I'm disappointed that two bills for ranked-choice voting have passed the legislature in California only to be vetoed by the governor (Schwarzenegger in 2007, Newsom in 2019): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_reform_in_California

I hope eventually some of these reforms will get more widely adopted.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/its-time-to-talk-ab...

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Re:I Saw the Hollowness Inside Andrew Yang’s New Third Party by chargingmarmot on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:39PM (#37513806)
Today I learned: Electoral reforms are one of the goals for the Forward Party and the Common Sense party. If you're a voter in California, you can help them with this by changing the party affiliation on your voter registration to the Common Sense Party to help them get recognition (they need 72,000 members).

https://www.cacommonsense.org/ https://home.forwardparty.com/volunteer_find_your_state

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