• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The way to build third parties is by reforming the democratic system state by state to have a ranked choice system

    Spending decades to tinker with the mechanics of an election system that excludes 40% of the population via its baseline construction? Seems like you’re going to keep getting the same results.

    What good is Ranked Choice Voting in a state like Florida, where 1.7M people are excluded through the state’s Felony Disenfrachisement system? FFS, the state voted on an amendment to reform Felony Disenfrachisement and the legislature just cancelled it out. Gerrymandering means you’ll never see a non-conservative state senate and you’re unlikely to see more than a moderate conservative occupy the Governor’s mansion.

    That’s not a FPTP problem, its a problem of targeted state-wide ethnic disenfranchisement.