The filing itself is here.

  • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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    Four states don’t use first-past-the-post for legislative elections. In particular:

    • Alaska - uses a top-4 primary + ranked choice general
    • Maine - uses ranked choice voting
    • California & Washington - use top-two primaries (note: CA can be top-3 if there is a tie for 2nd place)

    If a third party wanted to succeed, they would put significant resources into winning legislative and congressional seats in those places. I don’t see any of them actually doing that though.

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          Rcv is “new and scary” peoples resistance to change will always make them shit on things they dont understand. The only solution is to have more of us then there are of them.

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            There were ads running against it and the arguments were nonsense, but there was nothing from the pro side. It was like they expected* the electorate to just know that it was better and didn’t think a campaign was needed.

            *Expected, not requested

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        Mostly because the progressives didn’t control them in the early 1900s, so they don’t have legislature-bypassing initiatives, and even in states where you do have that, it’s expensive to get one through.

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      They’re not designed to win, they’re designed to offset whoever they’re turned against.