[OBupdates] Ranked Choice Voting: 3rd Parties Can Win

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*Pissed about the presidential elections? Blame the system. *As long as
 Massachusetts--and every other state in the union except Maine--continues
to run *“winner take all”* elections, all third-party candidates will
continue to be shut out of “no new ideas” races between Wall Street
backscratchers.



Ranked choice voting, which is widely used in other democracies, many
cities and colleges in the US, and by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences to award Oscars, can change all that. If you are unfamiliar
with ranked choice, check out http://voterchoicema.org/ and while you’re
there, take the first step toward revolutionizing government by adding your
name to the mailing list.



Voter Choice, MA, is a chapter of FairVote, a national, non-partisan,
non-profit organization dedicated to bringing more voices into the
electoral arena. When I go to Voter Choice meetings, I sit in a room full
of people from shades of the political spectrum never seen on most ballots.
Since the outrageous results of the presidential election, Voter Choice, MA
has experienced an exponential surge in membership. The new members are
fired up and ready to work hard to make every vote count.



Join us. Don’t let your vote end up in the trash bin of history.



If you are angry enough to hit the streets, you can find information about
demonstrations aimed at pressuring the Electoral College not to affirm the
choice of the moneyed minority, here: http://December19.us
<http://december19.us/> . If you are planning on going to Washington DC on
January 20, or 21, 2017, I hope you will ask yourself, * “What exactly will
this show of force accomplish?*”



I have been to many marches on Washington DC and I can tell you that the
laundry list of progressive, *“must haves”* has not changed a lot. Unless
we can come together around radically changing a system that silences any
voice not bought and paid for by Wall Street, you can tell your comrades in
arms, *“See you again, next time.”*



I will be in Boston, MA at the anti-inaugural demonstrations, and the
women’s march at the Voter Choice table, adding names to an effort with a
vision *and a plan*. I hope to see you there.



Forward wildly,



A.




-- 
"Our goal is a society that prioritizes the needs of all before the profits
of the few." passed by Occupy Boston General Assembly 11/29/11
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