DC Democrats argue ranked choice voting is confusing to voters in predominantly Black areas as they seek to block potential vote on implementing the system

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DC Democrats argue ranked choice voting is confusing to voters in predominantly Black areas as they seek to block potential vote on implementing the system
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But these poor black people can't count to five!

How fucking patronizing.

As a citizen of a country with ranked choice voting the hardest thing is choosing which of the loonies you want to put last!

Is it patronizong if it's backed by data? The article discusses how they're not just claiming it's confusing for these districts out of nothing, they're pointing to existing voting data that shows when there are multiple seats to fill for the same position, such as City Council seats, voters in these districts neglect to cast votes for the additional seats at a higher rate than other districts. "Undervoting" it's apparently called.

This is a horrifically self-serving bullshit "solution" to this problem, but there does appear to be a real problem that ought to be addressed as part of a ranked-choice rollout.

Sounds like there just needs to be a little bit of voter education rather than scrapping the whole thing.

Republicans would rather commit mass genocide than educate voters.

True, but in this case, it's Democrats who are the problem.

Don't get me wrong, I completely agree. What I was trying to get at is that educating voters will never happen so long as Republicans exist. They would rather cull the educated than create more of them.

Apparently Democrats would rather perl clutch their way through genocide, than educated voters

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