raskin.house.gov Raskin, Beyer, Welch Bill Would Bring Ranked Choice Voting to Congressional Elections Across America
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I will, however, absolutely condem anyone that posts that much text center justified.
I close my eyes, take slow deep breaths, and with each breath slowly count up and down from 0 with the high number increasing by one on each cycle. Eg. 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 3 2 1 0... It requires just enough concentration to keep my brain from drifting off to other thoughts (usually), but is boring enough that I rarely get to 9 without falling asleep. If find my mind does wander, I just try again.
They’ve broken the system and want to say “look at this broken system, we can’t trust it!”
This has been their process for... ever. They cut funding to government agencies (eg. FEMA), then when said agency has a hard time doing their job. they point a scream that the agency can't do it's job and should therefore have it's funding cut. Rinse, lather, repeat. And right wing voters fall for the sham every 👏 single 👏 time 👏.
That's an absolutely fair point.
Nevertheless, my overall point stands. Each fast food place I worked at had their own chain specific jargon. Nobody used, or cared about, sit-down restaurant jargon.
I mean, the guy who used the restaurant term was giving directions directly to a restaurant.
A "fast food joint" is not a restaurant in that sense. Nobody with any common sense would expect a bunch of kids working their (likely) first job for spending money to be up on, or care about, restaurant jargon.
fire its owner
Ummm, pardon? How does that work?
aren’t not dependent on each other
So, they are dependent on each other.
That means you're waiting to use the bell until you're right behind people. That's missing the point of the bell entirely. You're just grasping for excuses to have music regardless of how rude it is to other people on the trail.
I've got a bell on my handlebars for that.
People around where we live mount Bluetooth speakers to their bicycle and ride around on nature trails sharing their music with everyone because who the hell goes out in nature to experience nature?
Also, the paper casually mentions how rooftop solar reduces the cooling load of the building. What I didn't see acknowledged was that that extra cooling load (presumably traditional A/C) on a building without rooftop solar moves the heat out of the building into... (drum roll), the surrounding environment. So... the heat still got to the surrounding environment, it just took a longer path to get there.
Or force them to get a gay marriage.
He's not just any idiot. He's the most idiotic of idiots. He's an idiot the likes of which the world has never seen. Experts have told him that they've never met an idiot more idiotic than he is.
In the third paragraph you mentioned "tux" but I'm guessing that you meant "tmux". Just a clarification for readers not familiar with it and want to look it up.
That seems like a perfectly reasonable place to build that's not obviously at threat from hurricanes. But sometimes shit happens that couldn't be easily foreseen, and THAT'S what insurance is for.
My point, however, is that insurance is NOT to make other policy holders foot the expense of someone repeatedly repairing/rebuilding after completely foreseeable/inevitable events.
To anyone that insists on having a house right on the beach on the Gulf Coast, I say, "Insure thy self."
If people don't have the common sense to not build houses in places that are guaranteed to be destroyed by a natural disaster sooner than later, then I shouldn't have to subsidize their rebuilding costs through my insurance premiums.
Truth Social seems to be a target-rich environment for people who are easy to con.
Ya don't say.
I keep getting logged out today. Is it just me?
The title says it all. Not even sure if it's going to keep me logged in long enough to submit this post.
contracosta.news Richmond Agrees to Ranked Choice Voting Ballot Measure
The Richmond City Council agreed to place a ranked choice voting ballot measure before voters this November.
news.yahoo.com 'Blitz primary' could open up Democratic race if Biden drops out
Two Democrats are circulating a proposal to donors and bundlers that would see delegates choose a Biden replacement in the lead up to August convention.
Their idea goes something like this, according to a memo shared with Semafor that has been circulated to Democratic donors and bundlers as well as officials within the Biden campaign and administration:
- Biden would step down as the Democratic nominee in mid-July, and announce the new system, with backing from Vice President Kamala Harris.
- Potential candidates would have a few days to throw their respective hats in the ring. The Democratic Party then would begin a primary sprint in which the six candidates who receive the most votes from delegates pledge to run positive-only campaigns in the month leading up to the convention.
- The “blitz primary” would involve weekly forums with each candidate moderated by cultural icons (Michelle Obama, Oprah, and Taylor Swift are among the names floated in the memo) in order to engage voters.
- The nominee would ultimately be chosen by the delegates using ranked choice voting before the start of the Chicago convention on Aug. 19.
External communities not syncing?
I've noticed that the external communities I'm subscribed to aren't syncing. I checked a few on their home server (lemmy. world), and they've got plenty of new posts (eg. [email protected]), but the posts aren't showing up here. I don't think it's just me, but I've been wrong before. Anybody else?
www.boisestatepublicradio.org Open Primaries Initiative supporters to deliver verified signatures to Secretary of State
Idahoans for Open Primaries will deliver its petition with more verified signatures than needed to the Idaho Secretary of State Tuesday, paving the way to the November ballot for the citizen-led initiative.
www.dispatch.com 'The way our districts are drawn is BS:' Ohio redistricting effort moves toward fall ballot
Fed up with politicians manipulating maps to ensure reelection, a crowd of Ohio voters took a key step toward offering a redistricting alternative on the November ballot.
ivn.us DC Campaign to Submit Over 40K Signatures for Open Primaries, Ranked Choice Voting
A DC campaign has collected more than 40,000 signatures to put an initiative on the city’s ballot that would open primary elections to independent voters and implement ranked choice voting in all District elections.
Seeing as how some people here on Lemmy get upset at any mention of Ranked Choice Voting and respond that, in their opinion, it's not perfect, and that we should therefore keep the voting system we have while we debate which alternative is perfect for several decades, allow me to preemptively respond.
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RCV has the momentum and is infinitely superior to what we have now. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of fantastic.
I’d be happy if a community chose one of the other options. I don’t care. They’re all better than what we have and we should be celebrating every city, county and state that switches to any of them. That's the purpose of this post.
Trying to demonize one option because you don’t think it’s perfect is just muddying the waters and subjecting us to decades of more of the shit sandwich we have now while we debate which alternative is flawless (hint: none of them are).
You'll never get everyone to agree on which option is best. A vast majority of us can agree, though
ctmirror.org CT begins exploring ranked-choice voting merits, logistics
Ranked-choice voting could radically change how Connecticut elections are conducted. A working group is looking at the impact.
Evanston ranked choice voting ordinance passes, hopes to push county clerk’s office
nltimes.nl Campaign collects €30,000 for homeless Amsterdammer who returned lost wallet with €2,000
A crowdfunding campaign for a homeless man in Amsterdam who turned in a cash-filled wallet he found has raised over 30,000 euros in less than a day.
www.dallasnews.com Decriminalizing marijuana among proposed changes to Dallas city charter
Ground Game Texas says its members submitted almost 50,000 signatures to Dallas City Hall on Monday seeking to change the city’s charter to stop police from...
Some of the possible changes on the table are increasing pay for the mayor and council members, moving City Council elections to a ranked-choice voting system and extending the terms of district council members.
ithacavoice.org Campaign aims to put ranked-choice voting to a referendum in Ithaca - The Ithaca Voice
ITHACA, N.Y. — A group of local residents are trying to change how elections are decided in the city of Ithaca. Tom Clavel and Patrick Sewell, two leaders of the […]
newjerseyglobe.com Fulop unveils pro-democracy government reform if he's governor - New Jersey Globe
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Steve Fulop today proposed a series of sweeping changes aimed at strengthening Democracy and offering substantive
As governor, Fulop would push for ranked choice voting and same-day voter registration.
Missouri politicians put a trick measure on the November ballot to silence your voice
wamu.org JD Spain, Sr. wins Democratic nomination for Arlington County Board
The results came Friday afternoon after the county's second-ever ranked choice voting election.
Spain’s victory came after the county’s second-ever ranked choice voting election. On their ballots, Arlington voters ranked three of the five candidates. In the first round of the tabulation, the person who got the least number of votes — in this case, Julie Farnam — was dropped, and her supporters’ votes allocated to their second-choice candidates. The same happened with James DeVita followed by Tenley Peterson. That pushed Spain over the 50% required to win over second-place finisher Natalie Roy.
www.chilkatvalleynews.com State judge upholds most fines against group seeking repeal of Alaska ranked choice voting - Chilkat Valley News
In a 54-page order, a judge concluded that Alaska’s “true source” disclosure laws apply to ballot measures. Those laws state that if a nonprofit contributes to a political campaign, it must reveal the names of its donors, the true source of the money.
An Anchorage Superior Court judge has ruled that opponents of Alaska’s ranked choice election system violated state campaign finance laws in their effort to gather signatures for a repeal ballot measure.
In a 54-page order, Judge Laura Hartz upheld almost all fines issued in January by the state’s campaign finance regulator and concluded that Alaska’s “true source” disclosure laws apply to ballot measures.
Those laws state that if a nonprofit contributes to a political campaign, it must reveal the names of its donors, the true source of the money.
Hartz said one fine, levied for the misreporting of $2,358 in cash contributions, may not have been warranted and remanded the issue back to state regulators.
That was a small aspect of the overall case, which involved more than $94,000 in fines levied by the Alaska Public Offices Commission against groups and individuals who backed a ballot measure that seeks to eliminate both ranked choice voting and the state’s open primary, which pl
www.denverpost.com Group tied to Colorado election overhaul drops $1 million in last-minute primary spending
Let Colorado Vote Action has ties to Denver millionaire Kent Thiry and his effort to introduce ranked-choice voting in Colorado
The group is backed by Kent Thiry, the Denver-based former CEO of the dialysis giant DaVita who’s supporting a ballot measure to overhaul the state’s election process. In a statement to The Denver Post on Saturday morning, Thiry wrote that it was “time for many of us to stand up for the majority in the middle. We are supporting responsible candidates in each party who believe in civil and bipartisan behavior, and who believe they represent all the voters in their districts.”
The new spending committee shares a name, registered agent and phone number with Let Colorado Vote, which is supporting an effort to put a sweeping overhaul of the state’s election system in front of voters in November.
If placed on the ballot and passed, the proposed overhaul would institute a ranked-choice voting system here, in which voters pick four candidates from a primary field to send to a general election. Let Colorado Vote has also recently been critical of Colorado lawmakers for recently insertin
www.theguardian.com Wisconsin Republicans block PFAS cleanup until polluters are granted immunity
GOP-controlled committee thwarting distribution of $125m budgeted by legislature until polluter immunity approved
