They have been spending so long upholding the concept of spoiler candidates and 'a vote for x is a vote for y' framing that a ballot that actually lets you vote against a guy by not ranking him breaks their brains.
If he wins the primary the ratfucking and propaganda to try to prevent him from winning in November is going to be truly something. It may backfire but still
Ranked Choice is the only real democracy we currently have. Unfortunately only in few states and cities. 12 or so. Should be priority on a Federal level. Heritage Fcuks hating it tells you everything.
Yep thanks RCV for Murkowski being elected in Alaska. Would have had full MAGA senator instead. Sure republicans will eliminate it in AK in a few years
Proshyte 2025’ (on Heritage site) dedicated whole page to get rid of Ranked Choice. I’m sure it’s one of their priorities. We have to push for it on every platform, state and city we can. One of only few ways out of this shyte. Second is total mass labor strike. But we’re not there yet.
They are absolutely terrified of RCV because it least to better candidates winning, more competition, better representation, and most of all the potential for third party competition at the national level.
They are trying every argument they can to kill it in every state it shows up in.
the "Eeyore meets Nietzsche" thing in the article is on point, but that's if Eeyore were a top tier social historian and Freddy had his eye on the national zeitgeist.
Too many of our older voters haven't bothered to educate themselves at all and still think of him as that nice man that talked to him during COVID, when no one else would.
He's also more or less a mainstream Democrat, and their Signature Move™ is nominating people that they think will attract enough (imaginary) moderate Republicans to carry them to electoral victory.
Which doesn't actually work, so if Cuomo's not stopped, New York City will have a Republican mayor.
Boulder, CO’s NIMBYs still haven’t recovered from their preferred former-Republican mayoral candidate losing because RCV prevented a progressive from spoiling a second progressive.
Boulder citizens really loves to jerk themselves off about how enlightened they are but when push comes to shove they're some of the biggest cunts you'll meet.
There are no preferential voting deals anymore, the only way parties can influence the preferences of voters is through their how to vote cards. Backroom preference flow deals were abolished in 2016 because they were frequently used to channel votes in ways that were non-obvious to voters
OK think I understand it's again back to the how to vote cards. I always thought this was an electoral weighted thing. Time for me to pay better attention.
RCV also performs like shit when there's no Condorcet winner which encourages the same focus on a few parties as FPTP. Ranked choice is an op, it's outperformed by just letting people vote for multiple candidates.
? This is exactly what you DON’T have to do in ranked choice voting, but you DO have to do in winner take all voting. The whole point of RCV is to rank your preferences and let the system deal with the whole “well I would have voted this way to beat this person” thing
It is a weird argument to make against RCV since, as you noted, winner-take-all has a more serious version of this problem… but RCV has a version too, and it is especially salient in NYC politics. There can be circumstances where it’s strategic to rank your #2 above your #1 to stop your No Way
If your ranking last time was Wiley > Garcia >>>> Adams, history implies you should’ve ranked Garcia above Wiley
If your ranking this time is Mamdani > Lander >>>> Cuomo (as mine is), many worry that a preponderance of such voters will lead to Cuomo winning, vs a Lander > Mamdani ballot
The strategy comes from guessing how many of each candidate’s voters will rank the other candidate anywhere on the ballot (above Cuomo)
Won’t always matter but hard to guess, vs. winner-take-all’s needing to guess how many will vote your guy at all, which ALWAYS matters but arguably easier to guess
is the situation where this comes into play one where the lowest of 3 has to be eliminated to split their votes, and you might want your actual top choice to be eliminated?
Yes, exactly. If you think that the top 3 will be Mamdani, Cuomo, and Lander, and that Lander would win with Mamdani’s passed-on votes but Mamdani would lose with Lander’s passed-on votes (bc Lander voters won’t vote Mamdani>Cuomo in high enough number), then you want Lander advancing
I wouldn’t. I was trying to say that what’s relevant is how many Lander people are going to rank Mamdani above Cuomo. Ranking Mamdani and not ranking Cuomo at all would be a version of that
For better or worse, it seems that's becoming less of an issue as the race consolidates and the odds of Lander even being in the final runoff are slim. Heck maybe at some level the election is close to plurality anyway, the truly salient choices being "rank ZM over AC" or "rank AC over ZM"
Clearly we need a ranking system that allows you to first rank your top 3 and then optionally cast a "fuck that one guy in particular" vote that essentially counts as -1 for That Guy
It matters in some very specific cases—basically if it’s a three way race with one terrible candidate. Had a few more people who rabked Adams also ranked Bigelow ahead of both him and Wiley, Bigelow would have won. But that’s a pretty specific scenario that is difficult to plan for
This is such condescending and paternalistic tripe. She might as well say "RCV is bad because nonwhites are just TOO STUPID to use it." The concern she feigns for others is just....
the last line is what drives me nuts about anti-RCV messaging. if your slate runs out of choices you're not disenfranchised! your people just lost the election!
Yes, RCV doesn't allow non-white voters to have a say. That's why we're trashing it in an election with RCV where a non-white candidate might beat out the white, nepo candidate.
Also you don’t have to figure out what you think about every candidate in RCV any more than you do in FPTP, you can just stop ranking where your preferences end, even if that’s after one. I don’t think this author was a good pick for this piece, unless muddying the water was the point!
Yeah, the point of it is you don't have to consider who is most likely to win as told to you by media (some old white guy) you just vote according to your preferences. My country has voted like this forever, and there's a few myths like that trying to scare voters into voting status quo
"this party gives preferences to that party, so if you vote for them, you're basically voting for..." No, parties can't force your preferences to go to anyone, they can only suggest how they would like you to rank votes, you can ignore them. It's your ballot paper, your choices in ranking
Correct me if I’m wrong, but there’s nothing stopping anyone from just voting for one person and not ranking anyone else is there? Doesn’t that also defeat the argument?
Alas, if only (that would be great). There will be a lot of blanks; in 2021 just under half of voters used all five spots, though a high majority used at least two https://fairvote.org/rcv_in_new_york_city/
Ranking only one candidate limits down ballot influence. If you rank only X and nobody else ranks him then Y can win by gaining votes of second or third preferences. Cuomo can get the largest number of votes but still lose if nobody else ranks him. He can win only by overwhelming majority.
Sure, but that doesn’t make it any less an option. Under first-past-the-post voting systems, if a person votes for a fringe 3rd party candidate limits their vote’s influence in a similar way.
I agree, just to be clear I am not against RCV, just clarifying stuff to some used to FPTP. It’s very much a system favorable to voter policy preference than the candidate’s.
Also props to @blakefornyc.bsky.social for running a good campaign. Seems like this is not his cycle, but I liked what he had to say and I hope he gets into office soon
I mean, they're kinda not wrong in a way ... remember when Grandma Bloomberg insisted he needed a third term? Lot's of big talk about the questionable legality of him buying himself a 3rd go-round, but the NYC political machine just rolled over for it
furthermore: we had a robust RCV last time around with high prospects for positive collateral impact across the entire NYC political field, then Adams waltzes in on the 11th hour ... and, well ... everyone knew what having a dirty cop as Mayor would look like
Yes news for him the entire America is a democracy yeah even though there's Republican in Democrat it's still a democratic state with Democratic fundamentals it's not entirely a republic it's not entirely anything it's America it's a nice big old melting pot and that's a piece of shit.
How many of the people who turned on Senator Al Franken for a juvenile but harmless prank from his days as a comic are backing an actual sex pest in Cuomo? They’re as as bad as MAGA hypocrites.
Wait - are they arguing that ranked choice voting - where it’s ensured that the winner has at least *some* support from at least half the electorate - is somehow LESS democratic than FPTP????
Reading this article made me want to jump in front of a train. I’ve heard some fucking crazy shit before, but hearing the argument “having more choice is actually anti-democratic” is certainly a new one
I'm sure this will also come as a great surprise to the citizens of Australia, who've been using ranked choice voting to elect the upper chamber of their federal legislature since 1948.
No, we've elected *both* chambers of the Australian Parliament using ranked-choice voting since 1918; some state parliaments much longer. The 1948 change in the senate was to the multi-member/proportional version [a brilliant system, but honestly too complex for Americans right now]
While my larger point still stands, thank you for the correction on the point of fact! Because in this house, facts still matter and reality is non-negotiable.
The entire article is just an exhausting tirade from someone who seems to know nothing about ranked choice. Just openly admits being lazy and not wanting to have to pick more than one candidate.
And on top of the other comment, aren't you free to just not rank any of the candidates you don't want? If this guy really wants to be able to only pick one candidate, and he wants Cuomo, he can just... rank Cuomo at #1 and then not rank anyone else on his ballot, can't he?
Imagine having to learn about all the available candidates and figure out which ones you like more than the others. Actually having to participate in your democracy. The indignity.
She worked her ASS off, too. Not a single thing handed to her. Suffered tremendously to stay true to her art. And his dad is an anticolonial scholar… Not exactly the highest-paying academic discipline. Mamdani definitely found his own path, inspired by brilliant parents and an awesome community!
Everybody knows all the powerful political families in America have been spawned from indie filmmakers. The halls of power aren’t in DC, they’re at The Angelika Theatre.
🎶 One of these things is not like the other
One of these things doesn't belong
Can you tell which thing is not like the other
By the time we finish our song? 🎶
Well, perhaps they both get accused of being nepo- babies, but for some reason I find it hard to believe that Andrew would be known for much other than an uncanny resemblance to Little Carmine on the Sopranos but for his father.
Mississippi masala, the film that was basically lost until the criterion collection restored in a few years ago. Mira Nair hadn’t even watched it in years until it got restored. Jesus Christ.
Do you believe that this was about your preferences, not what was likely to happen, or do you believe that you despising something will prevent it from happening?
No I believe that there are mechanisms to protect us but everyone in power has failed in their responsibilities. Now we are on a narrow path to a very very dark place. The people failed, the media failed, our congress is despicable and Corporations have failed. I have done what I could…..have you?
If it isn't a 3rd party candidate, it really doesn't matter who wins. I guess we're presented with either a shit sandwich or a vomit stew on that menu. What is the people's preference? Shit sandwich? Vomit stew? I bet there's a steak somewhere there, but they hide it on the last page.
constant advocating of globalizing the intifada, his reluctance to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, his slow playing a resolution supporting the holocaust. We are in uncharted waters with respect to antisemitism both globally and in nyc and he’s not the guy imo
Ethnostates are a bad thing, dude. No state has a right to exist if it gives different people different rights based on ethnicity or religion. PEOPLE have a right to exist, not states.
Very funny how the “rEpUbLiC NoT A DeMoCrAcY” crowd hates the basic concept of democracy exactly until it’s time to cry about how the people rejecting a fascist is anti-democratic and mean
1. Pandered to nursing home lobby: let old people stay in nursing homes & die of covid.
2. Never listened to constituents; used NYS machine to run things with "three politicos in a room" only.
3. Shitty hospital & HMO consolidations.
4. Weasel with campaign $$$.
5. Made $500k lately from Netanyahu
I don't think that makes him a fascist. Just makes him an insanely corrupt asshole and unfit for future leadership positions. Either way, I hope he loses.
I wasn't the person who called him a fascist, but I think Cuomo is definitely "fascist adjacent" in many of his patterns of behavior and his limitless arrogance.
#DoNotRankCuomo
Sounds like ranked choice voting is "undemocratic" now that it's within striking distance of its first result antithetical to the city's richest and most powerful minority?
The instant he started leading in the polls (or "some polls" as the article says) they put this out. Lib establishment is maybe the single most predictable organized group in the world, it's so funny.
At least when the power ghouls did this in the UK it was coming from the parties themselves with their names on it, not from their free and independent press servants
Holy hell, they really are scared of this guy, huh? You’d think he was calling for secession, and not just ensuring that poor people don’t freeze to death in the winter. The chattering class needs an ice bucket challenge of reality.
Why in the hell would VOTERS need to "strategize" anything? You vote for the candidates you like and how much you like them. There's no room for strategy there, it's literally just MATH.
Ranked choice literally only has upsides compared to first past the post. There's no "extra strategy," you just vote for the people you want and if your favorite doesn't get the most votes but your second favorite does then your vote goes to them. When there's NOT ranked choice you need more
strategy because you have one fucking vote and if your favorite guy doesn't get the most votes then you "wasted" your vote. It takes WAY more strategizing in the pure FPTP system and I cannot fathom how you can do mental gymnastics to declare ranked choice as taking more strategy.
Experts can give a deeper explanation, but the real short version of RCV's worst flaws is that a Condorcet winner can lose, and some voters may be better off not voting at all.
Sadly, the best example I know of RCV failing is the Peltola-Begich-Palin election, and it's extremely difficult for decent people to sympathize with the people who got hosed in that case.
Still, RCV could just as easily hurt sensible candidates.
RCV seems like the only way you could get someone who's not "Hillary Clinton but two degrees to the right because we still cannot *learn* from losing" tbh...
"But they're not electable" that's fine enough people just need to have them as their second/third choice after the worst idea ever.
In canada the liberal party voted Mark Carney with ranked ballet voting. To lend credibility to the voting system they have internally. But we as citizens get shitty first past the post clunky voting
Which effectively means only two party's are in the game.
The Atlantic has invariably been diametrically opposed to reality, on each and every topic where they even sided with a BSL-3 plague, to kill "the help!" It epitomizes sneering PMC insouciance & specious obsequiousness to stereotypically reactionary, dead-eyed bourgeois churls!
It was 100% the ad where Zohran talks in fairly unaccented Hindi / Urdu, explains RCV with glasses of mango lassi and does a Shahrukh Khan pose that pushed him over the top
It would drastically reduce political extremism which would do amazing things for the problem of violent extremism —and a lot of rich people hope to depend on both to keep the majority of Americans ‘in line.’ If other people have to die, that’s a sacrifice they’re willing to make (to be richer).
We Australians have been doing it for decades. We also have compulsory voting, so you can get a good idea about the proportion of people who find it confusing.
At the election we just had, we had 91% turnout. Of those who submitted a vote, 5.6% were informal (ie no vote or mistake made)
Voters might have to state their preferences instead of choosing the lesser evil, and since they know voters are all idiots who need to be told what to think, they just want to protect them from that.
Only thing is the ballots should distinctly say 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and not 1, 2 3, 4, 5 to avoid confusing with "bigger number = more votes for this candidate"
It's less about it being “confusing” and more about it making smaller candidacies have more opportunity to demonstrate support, since you don’t have to play the “if I vote for who I REALLY want, I throw my vote away”, which is what unpopular but powerful candidates count on in FPTP systems.
If more people hate Andrew Cuomo than want him to win, instead of "winning" with 33% of the vote in round 1, he might lose. Have the voters who despise him considered the implications of that?
It's not a fair election
The primary allows a group to choose a candidate
The general election in November let's everyone who wishes to run the opportunity
It's the vote that is without regard to Party Affiliation
This is more voter suppression
Don't take the bait
As @janecoaston.bsky.social once observed, normal people do not win the New York mayoral race. Therefore, the weirdest candidate will win the New York mayoral race. This, my friend, is supremely weird
Anyone who denounces ranked choice voting is pretty much opposed to actual democracy. I am a firm believer that ranked-choice solves a lot of electoral problems by allowing people to express who their preferred candidate while not having to worry about risking electing someone they hate
I was legitimately shocked that voters in Colorado (and ID, OR , and NV) turned down bills with open primaries.
In CO, it was corporate and wealthy money flooding the zone with ads and a healthy margin still came out in opposition. Hopefully we get a decent bill for RCV soon.
If you mean WA state, no we haven’t. We voted it in but it hasn’t gone live yet. Unless your municipality is using it for local elections. It was supposed to start for seattle city council races but It wasn’t on the last voting cycle. And it’s supposed to start for primaries in 27.
Cuomo saw a sex offender get elected to the White House for a second time and his conclusion is he somehow thinks he’s a chump for resigning. Not a good guy.
Why is the only electoral system acceptable to the radical centrist, First Past the Post, which historically doesn't accurately capture the will of the electorate?
NYC's electoral method is really plurality with an RCV flavor, so it still is basically as bad as any other run-of-the-mill election in the United States from a small-d democratic standpoint.
This is the precise opposite of reality here; RCV requires LESS strategising because you just write down your preferences, you don't have to think about tactical voting whatsoever!
Also this part! You don't have to think about who's likely to win AT ALL. I think as an Irish person (where RCV has been working just fine for the last 100 years) I'm personally affronted by this lol
Hi from Australia where ranked-choice voting means ranking 6-10 House candidates and 6+ Senate candidates, and voting is mandatory for all adult citizens, and somehow everyone manages to figure it out. So ridiculous to think it’s too “wonky” and “confusing” for New Yorkers.
Curious, is she Jewish? I know Ezra is but not sure about her. I just would imagine writers in the Atlantic to be more liberal, but maybe she’s pro-Israel.
no idea. Also: most Atlantic writers are at best middle-of-the-road elite-media dipshits without a genuine thought in their brain or any actual writing talent. There are exceptions; I doubt she’s one. & the whole magazine, esp editor-in-chief, has been rabidly pro-Israel/genocide-friendly of late
this does not include all their contributors who are unreconstructed neocons who happen to dislike Donald Trump—David Frum, David Brooks, etc. There’s nothing “liberal” about it
Yup. Volunteered to go over there & be a screw. Then managed to find a Palestinian guy who had been one of his prisoners & write a book about their “shared experience” or whatever afterwards. Real class act
In NY it’s only used in the primaries, but in the general election you’re still stuck with the same “Pepsi vs Coke” problem rank-choice-voting was supposed to solve. They figured out how to implement it while protecting the same broken system.
Young Socialist we met at #phila #nokings knew of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and asked if we thought Cuomo would just run as an independent in the general. Let him and Adams lose it out.
Just a reminder that ranked choice was a democratically chosen method of primary voting and saves the city millions of dollars in not having to run multiple runoffs for candidates who can’t make it past the post on round 1.
Mamdani is proof that the democratic establishment is still compromised and is full blown corporatocracy at this point. We need leaders like him to fight back against capital. My only fear is some of our corporate overlords are even more ruthless than Trump IMO.
exactly, they forgot a lot of us didn’t express fake outrage when he massively let us down in this state after the truth came out, he should just take an L and retire in Naples, FL.
The being that was afraid was a bug that could suck out people's brains, though, which is a fair comparison to corporate media outlets like The Atlantic.
Most diverse (and qualified) cabinet ever--most diverse (and qualified) judicial picks ever. US economy coming out of the pandemic was the envy of the world. Very low unemployment. Did Biden have flaws? Of course.
but he also lived in the real world--unlike performative lefties like you.
I love that the recent arguments are all basically "Look, we are all selfish assholes here, just accept that some people need to be crushed. Valuing human life is so fake, just stop."
“Uhhh, if Biden was so bad, how come he did all these things that the establishment told me are good, which I accepted unquestioningly? It’s not like the news media and the government would collude, sweaty.”
What alternate reality are you living in? The economy was shit for working people and those on a fixed income. Homelessness skyrocketed. They fucking TOLD you this in poll after poll after poll.
Worst case of rectal cranial inversion in electoral history.
Economy is always lousy for those on a fixed income.
Inflation was a global phenomenon. U.S. recovered faster and prices increased by less--than other countries.
Biden tried to help the less fortunate and forgive student loans. courts/GOP/Manchin blocked that.
sorry he wasn't perfect.
Mm but what about working people, by far the larger group? When someone lists two factors, you don’t get to pick just the one you like the most, you have to counter both of them.
“Biden tried” so he didn’t do.
Are you more of a Park Avenue or Hampton resident? Do you know your driver’s name?
was gonna compare this Zohran RCV thing to caucuses when it looked like Bernie might win the Dem primary but then remembered we have had plenty of "liberal" takes questioning whether an abundance of small dollar donations is kind of undemocratic and almost oppressive when you think about it
well they're nothing new in Dem primaries and certainly not less democratic than front loading a red state like South Carolina to boot Biden. point was about nitpicking whatever existing mechanism when a leftist seems to be winning lol
Ehh, South Carolina being a red state doesn't really mean much when its a Democratic primary and Democratic Party voters are voting in it so the demographics are different (same with Iowa) but I see what you mean about the nitpicking.
ideally all primaries should be on the same day like a general election so early states don't have this huge disproportionate role and all votes have same weight. if it was just who cares they're Dem primaries, CA etc would go 1st since way more voters there...we obviously know that's not the case
I mean, a lot of the US debate on RCV seems to ignore the actual experience of Australia, the major federal democracy where it's used for ALL elections. You get good candidates and you get Pauline Hanson.
Not the way it’s implemented in New York, Eric Adams won with the current system and he’s a piece of shit. RCV in NY is only used in the primaries, which beats the purpose of allowing us to vote for a third-party candidate in the general without fearing he may be a spoiler.
Done correctly, Rank Choice Voting would eliminate the need for primaries entirely. All possible candidates from any and all political parties would run against each other in a single, general election.
I can tell you this doesn't work, if you have too many people on the ballot, then you a) have to number way more people than most people will and b) you start getting significant mistakes with stuff like duplicate or forgotten numbers. So primaries still have a place with RCV.
If the upstart young dem was um... Let's just say... Ritchie Torres-esque on the issue of Israel you wouldn't be seeing this sudden "concern" from the Atlantic.
More seriously, RCV does encourage strategic voting — to a lesser degree than FPTP but more than approval voting. RCV has fun cross-endorsement dynamics tho
A legitimate problem with it is that a LOT of voters don't understand it very well and end up unintentionally disenfranchising themselves past the first count.
Limiting the number of choices also results in people being disenfranchised past the first count.
It has some transparency issues. It also skews against strong underdogs. Also many voters struggle to understand the algorithms. STAR is really the way to go.
Coming from a state that has had ranked choice voting for years, it's made voting outside the two party system more electoraly viable as there is no danger of"wasting"your vote on a third-party.
It's not a magical cure for the ills of democracy?
RCV promoters sometimes suggest that it'll fix everything wrong with our electoral system when, in fact, it'll merely make it significantly less terrible (btw that's a good thing, we should all want less bad)
RCV wouldn't single-handedly fix all the problems, of course, but it WOULD allow for breaking up the status quo that prevents all the other problems from being solved.
I saw the Minneapolis DFL game it in the 2017 city council elections. The Trotskyist candidate in Nordeast, who got a plurality, was defeated by the DFL running multiple flavors of Democrat, as well as a Green spoiler (who wasn't even far left!!!)
You gonna follow up on the classic DeBlasio "not so easy to find a mayor who doesn't suck shit" Onion post with Cuomo's final argument, "I already suck shit, so I am destined to be your mayor"?
I read the article, because I was wondering how they can make a coherent argument that "New York is not a democracy." They don't. It's just a lot of vague griping about both candidates.
There are places with a post. A candidate has to get xyz or there is a runoff. It doesn’t have to be 50%. we don’t have a post but maybe people for some reason call that first past the post? Seems confusing but I am sure you are right so thanks for that clarification.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/chesa-boudin-recall-election-trend-san-francisco/661248/
They are trying every argument they can to kill it in every state it shows up in.
the "Eeyore meets Nietzsche" thing in the article is on point, but that's if Eeyore were a top tier social historian and Freddy had his eye on the national zeitgeist.
The Atlantic - "Trump's Next Coup Has Already Begun"
The excerpt the above article provides is extremely unsettling! 🧵
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Zionist backed city. Zionism is both RNC &
DNC.
Which doesn't actually work, so if Cuomo's not stopped, New York City will have a Republican mayor.
“It’s afraid”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-24/how-preference-deals-could-change-who-wins-in-some-seats/105206966
If your ranking this time is Mamdani > Lander >>>> Cuomo (as mine is), many worry that a preponderance of such voters will lead to Cuomo winning, vs a Lander > Mamdani ballot
Won’t always matter but hard to guess, vs. winner-take-all’s needing to guess how many will vote your guy at all, which ALWAYS matters but arguably easier to guess
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Great points, Atlantic!
The epitome of
Zionist trash.
That was an awesome (and unintentional on the part of the Atlantic) TIL.
Right?
….right…?!?!
One of these things doesn't belong
Can you tell which thing is not like the other
By the time we finish our song? 🎶
CUOMO IS 100% A PIECE OF SHIT. LIKE ERIC ADAMS, HE 100% IS CORRUPT.
…REMEMBER HOW HE “MANAGED” ALBANY AS GOVERNOR?!? TOTAL CORRUPTION 24/7/365.
DON’T LET ME DOWN, NEW YORK! YOU GOT THIS. VOTE PROGRESSIVE UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT.
mountain of corpses to his name.
2. Never listened to constituents; used NYS machine to run things with "three politicos in a room" only.
3. Shitty hospital & HMO consolidations.
4. Weasel with campaign $$$.
5. Made $500k lately from Netanyahu
#DoNotRankCuomo
Otherwise it's some sort of statement by the majority of the electorate that can be easily dismissed.
"It's not fair! He cheated by winning!"
“Instead of picking one person to lead the city, voters will rank up to five candidates. This process is wonkish and confusing.”
I would say you don't really need the whole article you can just lead with that.
Still, RCV could just as easily hurt sensible candidates.
"But they're not electable" that's fine enough people just need to have them as their second/third choice after the worst idea ever.
Which effectively means only two party's are in the game.
#wethepeople #lavoravincent #greatamerican #americanyouth #nokings
https://youtu.be/JJQS22Off2E?si=PFQq4e95dF3I4Cdg
to find the Atlantic
is passionate about
Andrew Cuomo's
Prima Noctem
Policy platform
Atlantic has been one of the only voices of clear-eyed reason during these insane times.
Two things:
1) have you been paying attention to what's being written in the Atlantic or are you just itchy for some kind of argument?
2) almost universally if quotes are chopped up as hard as in that Mint piece the writer is misquoting to fit his predetermined narrative
All it takes is one person who manages to register on the left side of the political scale standing to win an election to get that blunt honesty.
Absolutely he will win
Turn it into a national hub for shitbags if you have the Gusanos, Pahlavists, and boomer zionists all living there lmao
They don't want to remind registered democrats that the primary is even happening.
They are gonna have Cuomo and Adams running as independent... they may have already ratfucked themselves!
The only proper solution is to make RCV the norm nationwide.
At the election we just had, we had 91% turnout. Of those who submitted a vote, 5.6% were informal (ie no vote or mistake made)
So 45% of informal weren’t ‘confused’, they were people deliberately choosing not to vote.
https://antonygreen.com.au/candidates-informal-voting-and-optional-preferential-voting/
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Ranked choice voting
"Guys, this is really scary, Cherie Cherry, might not win this year's election; and you do NOT want a school run by unpopular kids!"
- by Penthouse Overlooking The Park
Is the Atlantic the Nega-Onion?
The primary allows a group to choose a candidate
The general election in November let's everyone who wishes to run the opportunity
It's the vote that is without regard to Party Affiliation
This is more voter suppression
Don't take the bait
https://bsky.app/profile/zohrankmamdani.bsky.social/post/3lrkzh7zbj22k
In CO, it was corporate and wealthy money flooding the zone with ads and a healthy margin still came out in opposition. Hopefully we get a decent bill for RCV soon.
We’ve had top two primaries for a long while however
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-atlantics-new-editor-was-idf-prison-guard/221400/
https://bsky.app/profile/lvtyimby.bsky.social/post/3lrkafbhbnc2l
Could...voting help...Mamdani win?
100% was typed through tears, by John.
https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1lahjiz/new_york_is_not_a_democracy_the_atlantic/
Here is a good one. I love my Atlantic❤️
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/07/government-privatization-feudalism/682888/?gift=sVGEh7OAf33D7CEcGTYm19j2EVqThozHSIoSTIrZC3c&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
We don't have any left-wing media.
CUOMO IS 100% A PIECE OF SHIT. LIKE ERIC ADAMS, HE 100% IS CORRUPT.
…REMEMBER HOW HE “MANAGED” ALBANY AS GOVERNOR?!? TOTAL CORRUPTION 24/7/365.
DON’T LET ME DOWN, NEW YORK! YOU GOT THIS. VOTE PROGRESSIVE UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hibuzkdknjhpgowuyjntnyge/lists/3lb3lvbp4tg2h
WHAT IS THIS, A TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP!?!?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/biden-economy-election/678431/
but he also lived in the real world--unlike performative lefties like you.
“The economy” is a dogwhistle for “the stock portfolios of the wealthy,” it is not a measure of how well the people are doing.
Unemployment statistics are cooked. Look into what qualifies as a “job”
pErFoRmAtiVe LeFtiEs
Worst case of rectal cranial inversion in electoral history.
Inflation was a global phenomenon. U.S. recovered faster and prices increased by less--than other countries.
Biden tried to help the less fortunate and forgive student loans. courts/GOP/Manchin blocked that.
sorry he wasn't perfect.
“Biden tried” so he didn’t do.
Are you more of a Park Avenue or Hampton resident? Do you know your driver’s name?
#CuoNO
polycule
turns every centrist
to a babbling fool🎵
https://www.rangevoting.org/PropDiatribe
I mean, there are practical things like transparency/simplicity, but approval voting excels there too.
https://bsky.app/profile/daotoad.bsky.social/post/3lbbn3xunzk2n
Limiting the number of choices also results in people being disenfranchised past the first count.
Democracy should not be limited to those with strong reading comprehension.
People have voted one way their whole lives. Any reform to voting procedures needs to account for the fact that people aren't good at change.
https://www.starvoting.org/voting_methods
RCV promoters sometimes suggest that it'll fix everything wrong with our electoral system when, in fact, it'll merely make it significantly less terrible (btw that's a good thing, we should all want less bad)
🤞🏼
Hmmmm, let's ask Thomas Jefferson what he thinks
April 2025: "RFK Jr.’s Incompetence Is Costing Kids’ Lives" https://blog.ucs.org/dminovi/rfk-jr-s-incompetence-is-costing-kids-lives/
"Former babysitter for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accuses him of sexual assault in Vanity Fair profile" https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2024/07/02/rfk-kennedy-sexual-assault-vanity-fair-dog
Kennedy lies about vaccines.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/01/robert-kennedy-jr-president-candidate-conspiracy
Like we should have done before welcoming previous sabotours in the Dem Party.
What's his past, & not the campaign image polished up one.
Just asking..
C'mon even Cuomo has a past.