MASSACHUSETTS!!
I come to you with a DIRE WARNING from your FUTURE.
This is because I have lived in your future. And it is called CALIFORNIA.
You want to vote NO on questions 3 and 5 today.
Both maybe actually sound good to you! But both have been tried in California, and they were DISASTERS.
Question 3: Chaos and brokenness you cannot now anticipate
Question 5: Stealth repeal of the Millionaires Tax. Watch this video where a Massachusetts Guy explains it. https://www.reddit.com/r/Somerville/comments/1xj2aoh/question_5_is_the_closest_race_out_of_all_9/
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Let me explain the TOP-TWO PRIMARY, which Question 3 introduces.
"First Past the Post" is broken. Most of the lines on my ballot have only a Democrat running and no one else. That's silly. There are lots of ways to fix it— ranked voting, approval voting— and we should pick one.
"Top Two" is the *only* worse thing. It makes the split vote problem *worse*. It means rather than getting to vote your conscience in the primary, you have to vote strategically in the primary *and* the general.
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