I’m reading it now… it gives better details, but other than what you noted, no other explanation. But yeah, it might be a good idea, but it is not a great way to go about it. It certainly feels very authoritarian.
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Having the elections in even years makes sense and probably will increase voter engagement. But they need to make that change legally. Which means holding the election this year with a ballot measure about changing the election years. One that says future elections will be on even years and the first one is the even-year that is just after when the next odd-year election would have taken place. So people can vote on the change and vote in an administration with the knowledge that group’s term will be one extra year if they vote for the change
This is bullshit. The Republican mayor wants his extra year in power and the GOP is terrified that an election in 5 months could give the Democratic party those positions.
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Exactly right.
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What? Why?
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Because those tend to be years of national elections, hence more people tend to come out to vote.
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Ah, I see. Thanks
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Sadly, many Americans do not see voting as important enough to do every single time.
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No idea why people in his situation don’t see it as freeing. He could now vote however he wanted to; stick it to Trump for screwing his reelection and be a huge roadblock to the terrible budget bill.
Most of us would. Republicans won’t.
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The US has a two-party system. You can build within that structure or be left out in the cold.
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The ranked-choice voting tabulation was completed and it’s now official: Mamdani won with 56 percent of the vote, 12 points ahead of Cuomo. Pretty decisive!
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[ETA] NPR did an interview with Mamdani…
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Update to that NYC election age distribution chart.
https://archive.ph/f9WMb[quote=“KathyPartdeux, post:376, topic:5288, full:true”]
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That’s still a massive rise in the 18 to 24 year olds, plus big surge of 25 to 39 years. And a bit of a drop in the peak centered on 65 years old.
By my reading: It’s not as visually exciting as the first graph, but it’s telling much the same story. Just with fewer exclamation points. Whadyareckon?
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It certainly makes it much harder to argue that “it’s those naive 18-24 year olds’ fault”.
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Damage already fucking done, Kirsten, you asshole.
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Dekalb is pretty solid blue, FYI…
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This kind of thing is happening all over. Best I can figure to do with such people is to go ahead and hire them but record every move and report every discrepancy around them. They want an environment of heightened scrutiny so let them live it and by god throw the book at every one of them that acts up because certainly some of them will.
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