• @Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    610 months ago

    Why? When have you ever had a perfect candidate? I like what NYC ex-mayor Ed Koch said. “If you agree with me 51% of the time, vote for me. If you agree with me 100% of the time, see a doctor.”

    • Sybil
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      -110 months ago

      I expect to have more options because I usually do.

      • @Kleinbonum@feddit.de
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        110 months ago

        Yeah, but in a first-past-the-post system, you don’t.

        Is that complete and utter crap, should the FPTP system be launched into the sun and replaced with a system that actually gave people choices, would a parliamentary system be better, is the Electorate College just an abomination based on a compromise with long dead slave owners, should every vote carry the same weight?

        Well, there you go.

        But in the current system, you’ll only ever have two choices.

        So choose wisely.

        • Sybil
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          -210 months ago

          I usually have 4 or more options on my ballot

          • @Flambo@lemmy.world
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            010 months ago

            How many times in U.S. History have the 3rd or 4th options been elected to the office of President? When the answer is zero, how do you count them as options?

            You are literally more likely to win the lottery than you are to elect a third party to U.S. President.

            • Sybil
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              210 months ago

              it’s my right to vote for the person I want to win. I don’t vote for people I don’t want to win.