Missouri Agrees is working on a referendum campaign to switch every election in the state to Approval Voting (AKA Freedom Voting). They’re actually doing a fundraising campaign right now in order to pay for the effort.

If you don’t know what Freedom Voting is, it’s very simple.

1. Vote for everyone you like.
2. Most votes wins.

The short answer for why it’s so great is that it means you’re no longer limited to choosing just one candidate. You can pick everyone you like without having to worry about strategy. The long answer gets into polling data, voting theory, and even representing systems, but the big takeaway is that it’s always safe to vote for your favorite no matter what.

If we can flip every election in Missouri with the proposed state constitution amendment, it’ll be huge for voting reform for the nation as a whole, because we’ll have a g whole state demonstrating how great Freedom Voting is compared to the status quo.

I’m always happy to chat, let me know if you have any questions.

Howdy. If you’re interested in election reform give me a holler. If you’re interested in anything else, you can give me a holler about that too!

Pretty much every alternative voting system gets very similar results in practice. Most of the arguments between voting nerds are about what kind of things are more important. Approval people favor simplicity and scalability, RCV people favor individual voter expression. I could give you all the arguments about why approval is better, but we’re in the middle of a funding drive so I’m kinda burnt out on it.

Well the group doesn’t organize through Reddit, but we interact with all the internet sites, because people are on the internet.

I’m an unofficial volunteer for The Center for Election Science and right now their big thing is helping people switch their elections to Approval Voting. So basically I just keep an eye out for conversations and posts where election or representation reform is relevant and join the discussion.

If you wanna win hearts and minds, you gotta show up where the people are.

That being said, I’m on Lemmy because FUCK REDDIT and monetizing social interactions is gross and icky.

Yeah I installed the official app because I have to use Reddit for political activism. The app sucks donkey balls. It’s genuinely confusing to try and navigate. It’s never clear where you are. The app SUCKS.

I socialize here now, I only go to Reddit if I have to.

They can hit the button, but Beehaw won’t register the downvote. In fact, as best I can tell it changes them into upvotes. I use Jeroba, so when I’m looking at Beehaw I still see the downvote button, but when I try to use it, I get error messages.

Beehaw just got rid of downvotes entirely. I’m mildly convinced that’s the way to go, but I don’t hold strong opinions about it.