Oregon election results: Measure 117 adopting ranked-choice voting fails
Wasn't even close. 60/40.
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/05/oregon-election-results-did-ballot-measure-117-on-ranked-choice-voting-pass-fail/75971429007/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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Who votes against this? Really!
They still could?
yeah they could but now they will.
We can't even get illusion of choice.
They must also only order big macs and never change it up. It would be nice to see who people really want.
People who read the heavily biased voter's pamphlet and didn't use critical thinking
What does it say?
Many pages of testimonials (fearmongering) about it being a bad idea. I only skimmed it.
Well they voted so now they never will have to use it I guess.
I don't know anything about the campaign in Oregon, but most people are scared of things they aren't familiar with.
Also I'm guessing neither party really supported this much, since they benefit from first-past-the-post.
Wonder what the campaign against it was. This seems like a easy win. It's not even a religious thing like pro-choice.
Probably just a bunch of bullshit falsehoods, look at the campaign against issue 1 in Ohio. It was a change to the state constitution to put a citizen run commission in place to draw maps for voting districts and Republicans ran a campaign that was just straight up lying about what the issue was about. Then even threw misleading ballot language on the ballot, I doubt anyone read the ballot language though because it was a small novel.
Issue 1 took up the entire back page of my ballot yesterday and was just nonsensical legalese. People voted on it based on how there prefered candidates told them to, and we all saw who their preferred candidates were last night.
I wonder how many people showed up not seeing their ballot in advance.
The vast majority.
Damn education system failed.
Like you can see the test questions in advance and it's encouraged.
Politics (especially among republicans) has become a bit religious, so it's not really THAT different I guess
Based on the popular vote they traded Jesus for this monster who can't open a door.
Missouri voted to ban it 😭
you would think even If you hated Harris you would at least vote for more dinner options.
I'm revising my estimation of the electorate a lot tonight
Every time I think the rubes couldn't possibly be stupider we have an election and I'm proved wrong
I never heard that word I think (not a native speaker) and DDG only brings up some band, which I don’t think you mean here. What are the rubes?
Colloquialism for someone who's easily fooled or taken advantage of
Thank you!
We had a referendum on ranked choice voting (referred to as AV at the time) here in the UK some years ago. The campaign against it was shocking. Well funded and extremely vocal. Bizarre lies and misinformation.
Someome really hates changing FPTP.
The funny thing is we just had a really unusual election where the right splintered and FPTP handed a landslide to the centre-left party.
The right is probably going to flip and campaign against FPTP soon.
Reducing extremism, reduces the impact of advertising, which means business loses influence... and the rich lose influence. So that is who hates ranked choice voting.