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Jane Goodall Says 2024 is the ‘Most Consequential Voting Year’ | “Every vote matters, more this year than perhaps any time in history.” (messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's going to be the most important thing every election year from now on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

And before now. It's almost like elections are always important.

And that's why my focus has been and will continue to be on improving our election process. I don't like the two major parties, so we should eliminate the spoiler effect by using a better voting system. I don't like that my state has extremely gerrymandered districts (100% goes to party A, despite party B getting 30-40% of the vote), so we should consider proportional representation for House seats. I think voting by mail is the best option, and I don't like that many areas disallow/restrict that. And so on.

Yeah, climate is important, but we should be focusing on voting reform since that's the only way to pick something other than the two clowns that make it to my ballot every year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You might like Protect Democracy . Their suggestions for reform and really good, imo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Looks great! They seem a bit too reactive though, I'd like to see some emphasis on nonpartisan policy to improve things. I do like their stance on proportional representation, so maybe they'll do more with it later.

Thanks for the link, I'll have to send some money their way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Agreed. And the best way to do that in the voting booth is to NOT support the encumbant parties who are the only ones who benefit from the current fucked up voting system. It is the absolute least you can do in the voting booth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yup. My state will elect the candidate from the local majority party regardless, usually with a 20+% spread. So voting for one of the two major parties accommodates literally nothing since the spread is higher than all other candidate pooled together.

So I vote my conscience, which is one of the third parties.