A key part of the New York City mayoral races was Ranked Choice Voting.
I'm not seeing many news articles mention this yet (correct me if I'm wrong though!).
Ranked choice let's us vote first for who we actually want.... and then put in backup votes for "good enough" candidates and allows us to compromise and find common ground.
It destroys the concepts of "lesser of two evils" and "throwing away your vote".
I hope we see Ranked Choice voting everywhere.
@tinker Oh shit I didn't know they were going with Ranked Choice! A serious W for new york.
Now to pick on my friend in New York for not bragging about it.
@Epic_Null @tinker they used ranked choice for the primary. The NY Democratic party can do this because primaries are an internal party process - a party could choose their nominee by a watermelon seed spitting contest if they wanted.
The election itself is a state process, governed by the rules of the state, and it remains FPTP.
@dragonfrog @Epic_Null @tinker … since an over abundance of radicals vote at the primaries, the two party system fields radical candidates in the general election.
#RCV in the general election is what will moderate US politics, and maybe rid us of the two party system
Tinker ☀️
Epic Null
dragonfrog
Musta dawned on me thusly