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mcc

@mcc@mastodon.social 40 min. ago

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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https://www.reddit.com/r/Somerville/comments/1xj2aoh/question_5_is_the_closest_race_out_of_all_9/

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@zmz@mastodon.social 1 min. ago

@mcc "I have lived in your future. And it is called CALIFORNIA." would be a great opening line for a novel

mcc

@mcc@mastodon.social 36 min. ago

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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mcc

@mcc@mastodon.social 33 min. ago

Look at this mess.

https://apps.npr.org/primary-election-results-2026/states/CA.html

The problem with "top two" is it means the winners are selected by minorities in the 20% range. You could get two Democrats—in which case why not just hold a D primary?—Or two Republicans, if five Ds run and 3 Rs, and it splits just a little uglier than it did in the example above. Imagine if Toni Atkins had run, imagine if the vote between Hilton and Bianco had been a little more even. Republicans coulda owned the general ballot with 40% of the vote.

https://apps.npr.org/primary-election-results-2026/states/CA.html

Krzysztof Sakrejda 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴‍☠

@wronglang@bayes.club 24 min. ago

@mcc there's been a bunch of Republican advertising here for the leftist gubernatorial candidate 🙄

mcc

@mcc@mastodon.social 17 min. ago

@wronglang now imagine republican advertising for THREE no-name leftist candidates!

We need ranked voting so bad :(