OPINION: America would be in a significantly less fucked up place if California and Washington had a proportional amount of power in government compared to their population.
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Replying to @gypsy_panther
abolish the senate. reapportion the house immediately and at each census (the actual reason the 10 year census is in the constitution). congressional districts to be apportioned by a fair algorithm with no exceptions. implement congressional term limits (max 2 consecutive terms).
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Replying to @danlistensto
implement ranked choice voting. implement 2 week long voting periods and universal ballot-by-mail. implement automatic voter registration upon 18th birthday.
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Replying to @danlistensto
Why not ballot-by-email, instead? Seems safer.
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Replying to @gypsy_panther @danlistensto
Ballot by mail is awesome One issue with it is that it eliminates the social aspect of voting though, which is maybe bad Election Day used to be a popular holiday in the US and I think we've lost something without that We have a Civic religion, or did, this needs ceremony
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Replying to @eigenrobot
physical polling places should still exist and be open for the full 2 week polling period.
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I think my aim is less "get everyone to vote" and more "make elections eusocial again" We live in a society
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Replying to @eigenrobot
we should distribute pot brownies at polling places
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