• macrocephalic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    But these poor black people can’t count to five!

    How fucking patronizing.

    As a citizen of a country with ranked choice voting the hardest thing is choosing which of the loonies you want to put last!

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      1 year ago

      Is it patronizong if it’s backed by data? The article discusses how they’re not just claiming it’s confusing for these districts out of nothing, they’re pointing to existing voting data that shows when there are multiple seats to fill for the same position, such as City Council seats, voters in these districts neglect to cast votes for the additional seats at a higher rate than other districts. “Undervoting” it’s apparently called.

      This is a horrifically self-serving bullshit “solution” to this problem, but there does appear to be a real problem that ought to be addressed as part of a ranked-choice rollout.