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3. the jungle primary

Reply to Auggie (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2026, 11:47 AM

Tuesday

is messed up. It would be nice to vote for the best candidate, but instead we have to see who emerges as the front runner and back them. Strategic voting....
With the jungle we could end up with a choice between two trumpers in the general...how messed up is that?!

Ranked choice voting is the answer. If we had ranked choice we could vote our hearts desire and still would end up with 2 dems at the top. Which would be more representative of our 2 to 1 registration advantage for dems.

PSA for RCV.

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