When they ballot stack, we ballot stack back.

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[–] [S] 22 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I mean if they don't like underhanded ballot stacking practices then they shouldn't do it themselves but better yet, let's criminalize it and force the Republicans to not be ballot stacking dicks.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Yep, the only way to get republican tactics made illegal is for democrats and leftists to do it. Gerrymandering? Fine until Dems do it. Spoiler candidates? Fine until Dems do it. Being a traitor, kiddy fucker, and insurrectionist? We'll see!

    Our system favors the fascist conservatives at every turn.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    (Canada) Just look at the recent Toronto mayoral result for an example of what conservatives do. We had over 50 mayoral candidates, all listed alphabetically by last name.

    The progressive option won by 13% thankfully. The guy with the stupid name who looks like Lex Luthor ran on selling the city's water to AI data centers and turning the waterfront into a private airport for rich people. Look at who won #3

    Toronto

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Fuck the very notion of a spoiler candidate. If government officials can say who is and isn't allowed to run for office we don't have a democracy. Ranked choice voting is a complete solve for this non-issue, giving cops and prosecutors another tool to bonk dissenters on the head with will only make shit worse.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    I would say approval voting is a complete solve, ranked choice is still susceptible to the spoiler effect since it may be in your interest to rank a candidate higher based upon them being the exact opposite of the candidate you definetly don't want to win. If it is runoff ranked choice then it is mathematically solved, but you are relying on everyone following the correct voting strategy.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Hell fucking no, "ballot stacking" is a made up bullshit term pushed by dogshit wannabe tyrant political consultant assholes who don't like voters having choices. If we're going to be a democracy then anyone should be able to run for office regardless of their name.

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  • [+] [S] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    And how do we decide which candidates actually want to run for office and which aren't serious? We normalize this kind of thinking and it'll be a few months before government officials are saying anyone who isn't a registered Republican isn't a serious candidate.

    Fwiw, I was pissed when I wrote my first comment and more of an asshole about this than was necessary, but that's because this whole idea of restricting who can run for office is fucking terrifying.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    In this and a lot of other cases where you've got this kind of underhanded ballot stacking, there's a lot of crap that just doesn't pass the sniff test. You've got same name just like here, that's happened a few times already, a candidate that has had no previous political history that just up and decided to run in a high profile election last minute, and literally like in this case and the case in Arizona in 2010 by Republicans, the paper work to run wasn't even filed by candidate themselves but by some political consultant from another party.

    Plenty of signs of ballot stacking shenanigan bullshit in these kinds of rare-ish occasions and who's even talking about restricting who can run for office here? No one. I certainly didn't. I did say make ballot stacking illegal but never suggested that we restrict who can run for office based on party affiliation.

    Republican's probably wouldn't even entertain that idea, they'd just get rid of voting completely and do a military coup with Kegseth.

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