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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it hilarious when progressives insist they can vote for whoever they want and it can't possibly be a wasted vote. No, we don't live in a magical fairy land (or a place with ranked choice voting). Of course it's a wasted vote lol. I don't love Blair either but there's a good chance he'll be better than Elrich, who is awful.[/quote]
Their focus on RCV and not runoff elections gives the game away. They don’t want elections to better reflect the democratic will with a candidate having majoritarian support. Instead, they want to devise bizarrely complicated and opaque systems that will hopefully allow their preferred candidates to win by one vote in a plurality. Voting and democracy as it is practiced in most of the world is as simple and straightforward as possible. They don’t want democracy and it’s very clear. [/quote]

While I find it both hilarious and unfortunate that instead of using specifics to garner support for their own preferred candidates and policies people are slagging what they imagine other people want or are doing.  I’m old enough to remember when opinions and facts were viewed as distinctions well worth making, and when opinions were supported with well-reasoned arguments.  How times change. [/quote]

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