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minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-211 hours agoEh, I’d say rank choice voting and lowering the barrier of entry to get on a ballot is more important. You only need a few hundred bucks to make a decent website with an outline of your issues
minus-squareBarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·13 hours agoAnd the reason you can’t get that is because the opponents pour zillions into campaigns to keep that from happening. If you want Ranked Choice Voting, then you have to get money out of campaigns first. I’ll say it again: Campaign Finance Reform is the issue from which ALL other issues flow.
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 hours agoEh, nah. Chicken and egg argument, but I think the rank choice goes first. From Berkeley to Maine, there’s a lot of places where we still have billionaires pouring into elections but we already have rank choice voting. Once we have rank choice, it’s easier to actually elect non corporate candidates and resolve the citizens united issues.
Eh, I’d say rank choice voting and lowering the barrier of entry to get on a ballot is more important.
You only need a few hundred bucks to make a decent website with an outline of your issues
And the reason you can’t get that is because the opponents pour zillions into campaigns to keep that from happening.
If you want Ranked Choice Voting, then you have to get money out of campaigns first.
I’ll say it again: Campaign Finance Reform is the issue from which ALL other issues flow.
Eh, nah. Chicken and egg argument, but I think the rank choice goes first.
From Berkeley to Maine, there’s a lot of places where we still have billionaires pouring into elections but we already have rank choice voting.
Once we have rank choice, it’s easier to actually elect non corporate candidates and resolve the citizens united issues.