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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • And even in states with closed primaries, lots of people register to influence the other mainparties candidates because their party can’t/won’t win at the state level…

    This. Those that do this got to vote against trump twice: Once in the primary, once in the general. Also “registering” in some states is simply saying the name of the party when you vote in the primary. You are given that party’s ballot, and your name shows up as “registered” for that party.


  • My only qualm with that is that if you select an algorithm, it needs to be selected, which means that the people in control of that selection can decide what’s non-partisan in the selection criteria.

    Anyone with a sibling that has had to divide something equally to share it knows how to solve this. One group chooses the algorithm and the second group chooses which side they get to on.

    The first group, who have the power to introduce bias disadvantaging one side cannot benefit from it, and worse, they’d hand the power to the second group. It forces the first group to choose a method with built in equality because the second group could force the first group to take the disadvantaged side.