• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Primary runoff elections were held on some random Tuesday, just after a recent election on property taxes and other local issues. If you want voter turnout, elections need to be held on consistent days every year, and not some weird date pulled out of a hat when voters already just went to the polls.

    Better yet, give us ranked choice primaries so there aren’t any runoffs.

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      4 months ago

      I mean, those are fine editorials, but the data is what the data is.

      This isn’t the only data point. Democratic voter engagement is depressed when compared with 2020.

      We’re only going to get a few more of these before the big game, and we should weight them more heavily than typical polling.