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13 days agoIt’s a poison pill to force strategic voting and push people towards candidates that are backed by money. Colorado turned down ranked choice voting, and a lot of it was due to a similar single-vote primary system being packaged with it to make it not work well for actually electing candidates the people want. Voting reform activists knew this and made sure enough people knew that ranked choice elections was a trojan horse for a bad single vote primary system.
There is a non-zero chance that right wing billionaires orchestrate an impeachment to replace Trump with Vance if he keeps footbulleting his way into deep unpopularity. They would let Trump, Hegseth et al be the scapegoat for the unpopular stuff while trying to rebrand back to a faux moderate position.