Washington state must push as hard as we can away from any Project 2025 garbage.
Vote by mail and/or vote by online. Ranked choice voting. Pro abortion … I’m tired of pro-choice weasel words. I am strongly in favor of women having the right to control their bodies. Single payer health care. And we should offer to buy Idaho as a Washington state franchise.
Pomme et pomme de terre ensemble pour toujours!
Ranked-choice is a far better system. Hope this passes.
Portland tried it, the results were not what anyone expected:
I’m a firm believer that our current method locks us into a two party system. It sounds like there may be some lessons learned we could take away here. I think Alaska also tried RCV?
I read that interview, and there was plenty of education with how the ranked choice voting worked, and it seemed like the issue wasn’t with ranked choice voting at all.
The issue was that now that multiple candidates (~15), people weren’t sure who they wanted to vote for. Since it wasn’t just a “favorite” out of two people after the primaries, people needed more education on who all the candidates were. That seems like an easy fix though as long as people can visit a single website or get a brochure in the mail listing who all the candidates are.
That seems like an easy fix though as long as people can visit a single website or get a brochure in the mail listing who all the candidates are.
I don’t know about Oregon, but we already do this in Washington. We are 100% mail-in elections, and when your ballot comes in the mail, you also get a voter’s pamphlet with information on all the measures and candidates. Or at least all the ones that bother to submit information. A few election cycles back, the Republican nominee for governor missed the deadline to submit a statement form, so the pamphlets mailed out to voters had a blank page for him. The campaign blamed it on a fault with their email server, but based on the level of competence in their campaign overall, I suspect someone just fucked up.
All that said, you can lead a horse to water… but you can’t make a voter educate themselves. There are still plenty of people who don’t bother to read the voter’s pamphlets.
