• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STAR_voting

    Star voting to avoid some of the potential negative outcomes of RCV

    Do not merge the house and Senate. They perform different, but equally important functions, once you remove the house cap and force them to start legislating again.

    Remove the illegal revision done by a single person to statute 1983 of the federal code, in 1874. This removes Qualified Immunity, and resets the law back to, “naw fam, no one, not even a Sitting President, Congressman, or SCOTUS Justice is above the law, and no one has any sort of immunity.” If you need immunity to do the job, the job shouldn’t be done.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html

    It also follows that congresspeople can now be prosecuted for insider trading, and SCOTUS justices can be prosecuted for accepting bribes.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Star voting is just FPP dressed up in a costume. And RCV’s prescribed problems only occur in strict math environments that don’t look at why voters flow to the candidates they flow to. I wouldn’t be surprised if Star was being pushed to kill RCV by the big parties because they know they can dominate it just the same due to the actual psychology of voting. (I want to vote for my favorite, but what if the guy I hate wins?)