How #FusionVoting 🗳️✨ enabled the abolition movement from Beau Tremitiere via Principles First
The Liberty Party, Anti-Nebraska Party, and Free Soil Party used fusion voting to make their opposition to slavery more electorally visible. Learn more: centerforballotfreedom.org
#FusionVoting 🗳️✨ amplifies voter choice by allowing multiple parties to support the same candidate. It's #democracy in HD!
Thanks New America for providing this sample ballot of how fusion voting looks like in practice! Learn more: centerforballotfreedom.org
Hear from Nolan McCarty about how #FusionVoting 🗳️ played a central role in U.S. politics for the first 125 years of our nation’s history. Fusion Voting offers a compelling way for parties to represent voters sick and tired of rampant polarization. Learn more: centerforballotfreedom.org
Empower the center Tom Malinowski: A centrist fusion party can restore leverage to moderate Americans. Our current system fuels divisiveness; we need new rules for responsible leadership and cooperation. Let's build a better political future: centerforballotfreedom.org #FusionVoting 🗳️
Simple, yet powerful-- #FusionVoting 🗳️✨ allows multiple parties to cross-nominate the same candidate, and the same person would appear on two or more ballot lines. It also solves the “wasted vote” dilemma. Learn more: fosters.com/story/opinion/…
#FusionVoting 🗳️ is the antidote to the winner-take-all electoral system, solves the wasted vote or spoiler dilemmas that otherwise plague third parties, and allows citizens who identify as independent to participate constructively in politics. Learn more: centerforballotfreedom.org
New Jersey voters:
1️⃣ understand that the two-party system is undermining our #democracy —and that it will not self-correct
2️⃣ are unhappy with the two major parties and want to vote for alternatives
3️⃣ broadly support the reinstatement of #FusionVoting
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With fusion, voters have the option to vote for the party line that best represents their own values. #FusionVoting 🗳️✨ means two or more parties are working to get a candidate elected, instead of one. Learn more: centerforballotfreedom.org
#FusionVoting 🗳️✨ is not confusing at all! It's a simple concept to support major party candidates on a minor party line. With fusion, you can support candidates who share your own values. Let's clear a pathway to a more inclusive #democracy ! Learn more: centerforballotfreedom.org
William Kibler, an Army veteran and environmental lawyer, is suing the State of New Jersey to reinstate #FusionVoting 🗳️✨ Learn more: nj.com/opinion/2022/1…
#FusionVoting is a game changer. It allows candidates to be cross-nominated by multiple parties. This amplifies diverse voices and encourages major parties to adopt more representative stances, leading to a more balanced political environment United Kansas cjonline.com/story/opinion/…
' #FusionVoting 🗳️✨, in which new parties could cross-endorse major-party candidates or run their own, would give voters a way to express different views without boosting their least-favored candidate' -- Mark Schmitt (@mschmitt9 on Threads) Learn more New America : newamerica.org/the-thread/sup…
'In the two states where fusion voting remains viable, New York and Connecticut, those parties have been critical to the passage of reforms that matter to the sort of people who have real needs and are not preoccupied with politics' -- Tabatha Abu El-Haj
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Rick Brainard Reinstating fusion voting is a common sense solution to counter the extremism and polarization ingrained in our political system. Learn more: centerforballotfreedom.org/faqs/
Center for Ballot Freedom I wish there were people that would sue the board of election in Pennsylvania. I have to collect 6,000 signatures to get on the ballot as a Libertarian candidate. Republicans and Democrats only need 500 to 1,000
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Felix Sargent 🗳 🧪 🪑 Robert Wilson Center for Ballot Freedom Lee Drutman ⚙️🏛 United Kansas Washington Journal Re: why. See above. Re: research. Yes.