07-02-2021, 06:21 AM
Now ya got it. Election day was on the 22nd of June. Lordy.
NYC. You wanted ranked choice elections despite my warnings..
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07-02-2021, 06:21 AM
Now ya got it. Election day was on the 22nd of June. Lordy.
07-02-2021, 07:10 AM
If you don't want something to work and you're in charge of the levers of government charged with making it work, guess what - it won't work. Cambridge, Mass, one of the least corrupt city governments around, has made it work for over 50 years.
07-02-2021, 07:55 AM
RgrF wrote: That's like saying Inglewood has made it work for 50 years. C'mon man.
07-02-2021, 11:41 AM
....so it smells a bit......rank.....???
07-02-2021, 01:01 PM
vision63 wrote: That's like saying Inglewood has made it work for 50 years. C'mon man. Fallacy of composition – assuming that something true of part of a whole must also be true of the whole.
07-02-2021, 01:23 PM
Yes, if a tightly run ship like the NY board of elections can't run RC voting, who can?
07-02-2021, 01:26 PM
New system needs bugs worked out when massively scaled up? Never happens in the private sector, right?
Give it time. Rome wasn't built, etc.
07-02-2021, 02:27 PM
DeusxMac wrote: That's like saying Inglewood has made it work for 50 years. C'mon man. Fallacy of composition – assuming that something true of part of a whole must also be true of the whole. They're two cities of the same size. Inglewood and Cambridge are pipsqueaks with just over 100,000 people each. Ranked choice just a ploy to allow marginal candidates an avenue to negotiate their way to a potential victory. Candidates form alliances and make deals to steer their constituencies. It's not a straight vote. A democracy means the majority wins the first time. Not some round-robin tennis match.
07-02-2021, 02:30 PM
Acer wrote: We've had ranked choice in California (San Francisco/Oakland) for years. It's not new. But they effed it up anyway in NYC. Couldn't wait to do it. Our unfair "open" primaries in California are a whole other ridiculous system designed to uplift the unpopular. It hardly ever works. They're popularly known as "Jungle Primaries." Everybody is afraid of people simply voting.
07-02-2021, 02:43 PM
vision63 wrote: The Heritage Foundation agrees with you. https://www.heritage.org/election-integr...bad-choice |
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