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libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com
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http://info.ballotpedia.org/dm?id=8128497C078C28FDB9F4CEA792EE8CC46E43630501AD63A4

ranked-choice #voting

Alaska, Maine, and Hawaii use #RCV in at least some statewide or federal #elections. Jurisdictions in 13 other states either use or are scheduled to begin using RCV in municipal elections. Five states—Florida, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, and Tennessee—prohibit RCV.

From 1965 through 2023, there were six statewide RCV ballot measures in four states. Voters approved four (66.7%) and rejected two (33.3%). There were 67 local measures on whether to adopt RCV. Voters approved 52 (77.61%) and rejected 15 (22.39%) of these measures. Meanwhile, there were seven local ballot measures to repeal RCV. Voters approved four (57.14%) and rejected three (42.86%) of these measures.

State lawmakers have introduced four RCV-related bills in 2024, according to our election legislation database. Throughout 2023 and 2022, that number was 116 and 44, respectively.

Two states thus far—Nevada and Oregon—will be voting to implement RCV in 2024.

If you want to learn more about RCV, Ballotpedia recently unveiled a new RCV Info Hub, a resource to address the lack of neutral resources to help voters understand what RCV is, how it’s used, its history, and why people support or oppose its use. https://ballotpedia.org/Ranked-choice_voting_(RCV)?_wcsid=E155E2B79C4330D43809C5BBDF4F53C064C7AB5DED7F4777

mlansbury@despora.de
Mark Lansbury

UK - New political funding rules sneak in

The Tory government passed a statutory instrument that will increase the amount of money that an individual can donate to a party without declaring who donated it, from ÂŁ7,500 to ÂŁ11,180. We are concerned about any move that could see more money flowing anonymously into our politics.

The same statutory instrument increased the national election spending cap by 80%, from ÂŁ19.5m to about ÂŁ35m. This is the amount that party HQs can spend, there is another cap for how much local candidates can spend.

https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/new-political-funding-rules-sneak-in/

#UK #corruption #ToryCorruption #elections #campaigns #ToryDictatorship #ToryFascists #DemocracyNow #ToryCronyism #voting #FairVotes #money

New political funding rules sneak in

When people are asked about the problems with money in politics, few raise the issue of there not being enough. In fact, the public are deeply concerned about big money in politics with

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diane_a@diasp.org
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The GOP’s Secret to Protecting Gerrymandered Electoral Maps? Claim Privilege.

Through new and expansive assertions of privilege, #Republican legislatures around the country are shielding their work on allegedly discriminatory #voting maps to prevent the public from finding out how and why they made their decisions.

https://www.propublica.org/article/electoral-maps-gerrymandering-texas-voting-elections-privilege

The GOP’s Secret to Protecting Gerrymandered Electoral Maps? Claim Privilege.

Through new and expansive assertions of privilege, Republican legislatures around the country are shielding their work on allegedly discriminatory voting maps to prevent the public from finding out how and why they made their decisions.

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aljazeera@squeet.me
Al Jazeera (unofficial)

How worried are Americans about their choices in the 2024 vote? | The Bottom Line

Will the Republican-led impeachment inquiry succeed in painting United States President Joe Biden as “crooked"? Will it backfire and be judged as a colossal ...#2024elections #AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Donaldtrump #HowworriedareAmericansabouttheirchoicesinthe2024vote? #JoeBiden #TheBottomLine #UnitedStates #Unitedstatesofamerica #alJazeera #aljazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeerabottomline #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #biden #bottomline #latestnews #newsheadlines #politics #trump #uselections #uselections2024 #uspolitics #voting
How worried are Americans about their choices in the 2024 vote? | The Bottom Line

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anubis2814@friendica.myportal.social
anubis2814

May theoretical idealists view #voting as giving your power to to people. The reality is we have very little power and voting helps dilute the power of those in power. It makes them actually have to listen to and react to direct action. Not voting allows the powerful to crush any dissent and ignore all direct action.

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diane_a@diasp.org
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“Half of Mexico’s Congress is #female. The cabinet is #gender-balanced. And now, #women have won the primaries of the two leading political blocs—making it likely that this traditionally macho nation will elect its first female president, ahead of the United States…

#Mexico ranks fourth in the world in female participation in national legislatures, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The US ranks 71st—just below Iraq.”

#equality #WomensRights #voting #feminism

https://wapo.st/3LetHuR

Women win Mexican primaries; one is likely to be first female president

It’s not quite Barbie Land, but Mexico has become a world leader in gender parity in government.

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