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minus-squareClent@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down5·4 days agoYeah, no. If no party can get to 270 electoral votes, the president is picked by the House of Representatives. That means congress would need be flippped into third party majority first. Splitting the left off only benefits the far right. Anyone who thinks otherwise is stuck in an echo chamber.
minus-squareSparroHawc@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·4 days agoThis is why stoy said the First Past the Post system needs to be dropped.
minus-squarethe_fuzz@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·4 days agoWhich would require a constitutional amendment, meaning it’s a pipe dream.
minus-squareUltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 days agoCould you explain how Alaska or Maine managed to have a Ranked-Choice Voting system?
Yeah, no.
If no party can get to 270 electoral votes, the president is picked by the House of Representatives.
That means congress would need be flippped into third party majority first.
Splitting the left off only benefits the far right. Anyone who thinks otherwise is stuck in an echo chamber.
This is why stoy said the First Past the Post system needs to be dropped.
Which would require a constitutional amendment, meaning it’s a pipe dream.
Could you explain how Alaska or Maine managed to have a Ranked-Choice Voting system?