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Democracy, voting rights, redistricting, maps, & poli sci.
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Imagine 3 ranked-choice candidates.
You prefer A>B>C.
Round 1 is roughly:
A: 30%
B: 30%
C: 40%
If B is eliminated 1st, their 2nd choices split 15-15 & C beats A by 55-45.
But if A is eliminated 1st, their 2nd choices split 25-5 for B, who beats C by 55-45 instead.
Ideal strategy is ranking B>A
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Trump dramatically improved upon his previous result in California last year. But those voters are irrelevant for him or the next Republican presidential nominee.
Real democracy is a check against tyranny precisely because governments have to worry about losing votes from people if they harm them
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Democratic Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez cynically justified voting for Republicans’ SAVE Act—which would impose this requirement in an effort to disenfranchise 10s of millions—by claiming it was doomed in the Senate.
But providing “bipartisan” cover to this voter suppression scheme is not harmless
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Republicans admitting to partisan gerrymandering as a way to defend against claims of racial gerrymandering.
All thanks to the Supreme Court’s conservatives
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Republicans drew this gerrymander by eliminating a district where Black voters had been able to elect their preferred candidate, a Democrat
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Every sentence in this article is jaw dropping. Which govt does Beattie work for?
“In the years before joining the govt, Mr Beattie wrote social media posts suggesting Western institutions should be “infiltrated” by Putin, while he also attacked what he described as the “globalist American empire”.
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That dictionary’s oversight literally deserves sanction
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Right. I wasn’t commenting on the mechanisms by which that pattern arose in Poland, just the U.S. South
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This voting pattern is evident in the Black Belt region spanning southern Alabama, where the fertile black soil sustained slavery-based plantation agriculture in the 1800s.
That region has many rural Black Democrats today, while in other regions, only the cities have large Black & Dem populations