"I'm pretty sure pigs can fly." says every person who has heard it's true a thousand times but hasn't really evaluated the claim in detail or tested it. 😞 FairVote has so much money to spread "your vote is always counted" misinformation about #RankChoice (and lies about #STARvoting), that nobody tries to see through the second or third round of IRV/RCV/STV that is just a shell-game stall tactic to prevent #VotingReformhttps://starvoting.org
#STARvoting now hiring signature gatherers in #Portland/ #pdx metro area, in coalition with "Get Big Money out of Politics" and the "Oregon People's Rebate" Universal Basic Income initiative. #UBI#BasicIncome#votingReform#CampaignFinance#democracy#ORpol (paid canvassers would carry all 3 petitions.) Learn more about STAR voting at Oregon Chapter Meeting Wed at 6pm online starvoting.org/events
Trump can't win without third party candidates splitting the vote because he can't reach a majority of the votes, but he can get a plurality of the votes if enough candidates are in the race.
#STARvoting canvassing at the Montavilla Farmers Market this Sunday. Stop by and get your signature on the state petition (or get in touch beforehand if you can volunteer to help.) #Portland#VotingReform
#STARVoting is canvassing at PSU Farmers Market Sat July 29. Volunteers and signatures needed to get https://www.starvoting.org/star4or2024 on the Oregon 2024 ballot. This is the #VotingReform we need to break out of two-party games like "throwing your vote away" with simplistic outdated vote-counting methods, better than #RankChoice because in STAR, your vote always counts and the 2-step results (add & count your favorite of top-2) are simple to distribute, track, & audit. #ORpol#Portland#pdx
Help #STARvoting get on the statewide ballot and let's get #ORpol unstuck from polarized deadlock! Volunteer to gather signatures before the Pride Parade on Sunday, and more #pdx events coming up later this month and next. State chapter zoom Wednesday night. #VotingReform
@enobacon Catch that Phobé and Dan are trying to kill RCV without a similar solution?
Might be a good time to try selling it to the City Commission, because the "it's too confusing for immigrants" level discourse out of them is disgusting but forgets a lot of us came from countries with RCV...
Might be the time to pitch the hell out of STAR. :)
@palkyrie once we get enough signatures on the STAR petition, it will be on that '24 ballot, for the state and federal elections and any cities and counties that haven't messed around and adopted some other thing
Michigan voter reforms have made it a model for strengthening democracy, report says
"While some states have struggled to implement meaningful reforms—and many have moved in the wrong direction by restricting access to the ballot box — Michigan has proved that transformational change can be accomplished in just a few short years"