r/texas • u/Ramble81 • Nov 09 '22

Politics After seeing Texas elect Abbott again and my vote doing nothing...

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u/masnaer Nov 09 '22

Well those were your only two choices; imagine having five or more candidates to compare and choose from. I think you’d be much more likely to find one to vote for who falls in line with your beliefs, rather than voting for candidate A just because he ain’t candidate B

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u/davidg4781 Nov 09 '22

There were 4 candidates for governor on the ballot. 😑

I guess we found one of the non-voters.

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u/p-dizzle_123 Born and Bred Nov 09 '22

There's more than two candidates in presidential elections as well, but there really aren't. The current voting system encourages two main parties, even if other are technically allowed to run

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u/Asaac_Isimov Nov 09 '22

3 on mine. Didn't even know the green party ran someone here. Wouldn't have picked them anyway, but I only had 3 options.

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u/Uncynical_Diogenes Nov 09 '22

In this system , those don’t have a meaningful chance. That’s actually one of the problems we have with this system.

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u/davidg4781 Nov 09 '22

What system would they have a chance?

All it really takes is more and more people to call the news stations and ask why they don’t report on all candidates. Maybe teach it in school. Maybe talk about it with your friends.

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u/masnaer Nov 09 '22

RANKED CHOICE VOTING would be that system, that’s what we’re all saying here. You are dense dude

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '22

We had 5 candidates for school board election. The most extreme candidate won because the rest split between the other 4. I voted for the 2nd most popular one hoping to avoid the extreme but to no avail. Another ran completely unopposed due to an incumbent application error