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canetoad

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11. We tend not to take politicians

Reply to Haggard Celine (Reply #7)

Fri Jan 2, 2026, 07:34 PM

Jan 2

As seriously as you do in the US. It's said that one advantage of preferential (ranked choice) voting is we usually elect the least hated as opposed to the most popular.

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