no one fucking told me about states banning RCV during all that yapping on here about how i should VOTE THIRD PARTY OR ELSE IM COMPLICIT in the DNCs CRIMES

it may or may not be joever, very blackpilled at this moment

edit it’s actually 10 states. 5 in the past two months.

    • PeggyLouBaldwin@lemmy.world
      11·
      6 months ago

      but it doesn’t. it isn’t counted at all. this is mental gymnastics that leads to actual election misinformation. stop.

      • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 months ago

        it isn’t counted at all

        Puns are not valid arguments. If broke into a ballot box (for the same of the argument, let’s ignore all the security measures) and took out all the votes for the candidate I didn’t like, these votes will literally won’t be counted. Does that mean my action doesn’t count?

          • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            The pun is about the double meaning of the word “count”:

            1. The literal act of measuring the number of instances of a certain thing. In our case - whether the people working the election will physically be able to count the physical vote (or digitally. This is about the concept in general, not about a particular voting mechanism)
            2. A contribution toward something. In our case - the fact the votes were stolen affects the outcome, so it counts toward changing the result.

            So what am I lying about exactly? I’ve presented an hypothetical case, and made two claims about it:

            • That the stolen votes will not get counted (in the first meaning of the word)
            • That my action counts (in the second meaning of the word)

            Which of these claim is incorrect?

            • PeggyLouBaldwin@lemmy.world
              11·
              6 months ago

              I thought we were talking about counting votes the whole time. I’m not interested in helping you with your mental gymnastics routine.

              • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                6 months ago

                I thought we were talking about counting votes the whole time.

                We are, sort of, but counting votes is not just a fun pastime activity - it’s a mean for determining who will take the power (or, in depending on the political system, how the power will be distributed) so my argument is that there is a meaning to the result of that count.