• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    as an informed she’ll split the vote.

    it’s there a way to force a form of ranked choice voting?

    she runs for independent, but the votes are for delegates that chose the president, so if she gets 10% of the votes, the delegated should vote for the other less fash candidat, while if she does get the majority she gets the presidency

    on top of that, she can make the delegate vote conditional for some policies. so even if she gets 5% of the votes she can dictate the delegates to vote for whichever candidate signs a legally binding contract to do some prewritten executive actions on day one, like abolish Ice. release all imprisonment migrants, grant re-entry visas to deported…

    so even if she only gets a few votes, she can have a lot of influence and power.

    I just started thinking about this today,and I fear there are more complications. but I’m principle, could this work?

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      4 hours ago

      Delegates are not granted proportionally. If the Democratic nominee gets 30% of the vote in a state, AOC gets 30% of the vote, and the Republican gets 35% of the vote, all the electors are Republican.

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          2 hours ago

          Two states allocate votes by congressional district, but that’s just first past the post at a smaller level and the spoiler issue remains. You need proportional representation or some actual form of transferable vote to avoid it.

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      9 hours ago

      Yes, it could, which is why (IIRC) 16 US states now have laws that partially or fully ban ranked choice voting.

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      6 hours ago

      At a minimum splitting the vote would mean that they are coming from the “didn’t vote” pool (which has been the majority in pretty much every election for decades now). This is a strong signal that the DNC needs to move left or become irrelevant because a new party would simply split. For example of this working see the republican party becoming the maga party for that reason. Doing this will also add more weight to our protests.

      • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        yhea, the dems becoming right wing is what the donors want, but it won’t get votes

        making the democrats a dead party, unless they tell the donors to fuck off.