• Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    As someone who’s guilty of thinking ‘both sides are the same’ I think you’re definitely right.

    For context I am Australian and while I still think our labor party is better than our liberal party the differences are small, which is why I always vote for our further left party whose votes ultimately go to labor anyway.

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      9 months ago

      Australia has ranked choice voting, does it not? I’d vote for the farthest left option too if the US had RCV.

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        9 months ago

        It works pretty well, too. Sure there’s still a two party situation going on, but recently the amount of votes not going to either is making it clear they’re slowly losing voter confidence as the older generation fade out.

        I think younger voters actually understand how important the senate is too and how powerful ranking it with some detail can be.