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Thank you for 1000 followers (part 2‽) To celebrate, here's the latest version of my national fair map... and a thread of threads with a breakdown of each state and links to each map!

@davidslosttt Mississippi border COI, real and true

A potential "race blind" Louisiana is pretty interesting

@alt_ccc I'm not sure doing things of purely symbolic value is valuable anymore.

It would be unforgivable for Democrats not to impeach over this Trump settlement thing.

@king_ofdior @rowanfornow "The way this country works isn't how the founders intended" and "the way the founders intended for things to work wouldn't have been great either" are not incompatible ideas; I think they're both true!

@Stuart98_ @rowanfornow 2)like this deification of men who lived 250 years ago is weird. 1/2 of the colonies were motivated to keep slavery as their reason for rebellion and they then designed a political system and constitution making sure that popular change would be hard to enact for that very reason

Do you agree with this statement: "There are flaws in the way our institutions are structured which cause our final election results to be significantly off-base with the actual will of the people" If so, is the will of the people further left or right of the election results?

@king_ofdior @rowanfornow They envisioned the initial two-party system as very temporary until one party prevailed and the other withered. That was a big part of James Monroe's presidency, trying to put a permanent end to the two party system by killing off the weakened federalists.

@Stuart98_ @rowanfornow Yeah man they didn’t envision a 2 party system which is why almost immediately they formed 2 major opposing political parties lmao

@king_ofdior @rowanfornow The filibuster didn't become ubiquitous until the past couple decades; for the vast majority of this country's history most senate bills only needed a bare majority of the vote. Gerrymandering has always been a thing but it usually wasn't as widespread or pivotal as today.

@king_ofdior @rowanfornow "Appeared early on" and "were intended by the founders" are very different things!

@king_ofdior @rowanfornow Nor did they envision a two party system with primaries that enforced loyalty to a party above all else.

@king_ofdior @rowanfornow The founders never envisioned the electors themselves being a formality who were pre-pledged to specific candidates, or half the house being elected from gerrymandered districts, or the senate having a 60% threshold for passage of bills

@rowanfornow Even PR systems are bad at translating *individual* preferences to results, since they generally only allow individuals to express opinions about a single party (just like choose one plurality). They just mostly eliminate the strategic incentives to misstate one's preference.

@rowanfornow Choose one plurality voting is inherently terrible at translating preferences to results (and RCV/IRV isn't much better)

@king_ofdior @rowanfornow I mean none of those institutions are working as the founders intended lol

@rowanfornow It’s not a flaw. It’s the design of the EC, senate, and house lol

Tricking voters into approving a condorcet method instead of IRV by still calling it RCV would be a very funny bit

Wait, where's the actual text of the amendment? "Broadest support" is *probably* just a buzzword but it doesn't really describe IRV (which favors core support over broad support); nothing that I'm seeing on their site rules out an alternate ranked choice method.

@Penguin57a @Zprtr1 Choose one blanket primary, ranked choice top 4 general. It's the Alaska system.

@Zprtr1 Is it like the Alaska top 4 RCV?

This would actually be incredible for California. We should adopt it

@AocFor2028 Newsom is the dem who's running the Trump playbook (just say shit to get earned media and drown out everyone else), I doubt there's any dem who can be seen by the voters how Trump was in 2016 (guy is outside the system so not beholden to it and totally a moderate)

The concept of Pete Buttiegeg being “The Dem’s Trump”

@ZachTGR @michigeese Politician who approves of doing whatever it takes to get power so they can do absolutely nothing with it (surprisingly, many such cases)

@michigeese you’d think she wouldn’t have signed off on redistricting then idk what she’s on

@Uncrewed Rip bozo lmao

Former Congressman Mo Brooks's comeback campaign in the Alabama State House is NOT going well

Underdiscussed how we Americans just put way too much shit on our ballots.

@ZacharyDonnini @electionsjoe Election day being better for Massie would be a surprise for me.

Lewis County appears to have reported the first Election Day votes (although I can't be sure); they shifted 9 points toward Massie. It is a small datapoint, and 9 may not be enough given the AB/EV deficit, but it suggests the race could tighten as more Election Day vote reports.

(This is for the New York Times)

First time I've ever seen a monthly subscription be cheaper per month than an annual one, wtf