• Guy Dudeman@lemmy.world
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    I have no idea what party these people belong to. It’s not listed on the sheet. Their policy positions aren’t shown. Their endorsements aren’t shown. Nobody knows who the fuck any of these people are.

    What you need Ranked Choice Voting for is Congress and the Presidency. Local elections also need to be partisan. Otherwise how the fuck do you know where any of the candidates even generally stand on the issues?

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      Local candidates usually have websites, do interviews with local papers, and are suuuper excited to talk to potential voters, so people could look at any of that?

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      The city or county will probably have a thing called a website where you can read about all of those things for each candidate.

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      We do all of our voting by mail and get a pamphlet with most of the serious candidates. It is really great and we have like two weeks to work on it. It isn’t like we showed up at the poll and were confronted with this and had to fill it out on the spot.

    • Cris@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, researching candidates is great and all, but like they didn’t exactly set themselves up for success with this ballot design.

      It kinda sucks ass. :/