Stateline Magazine Article on Gains for Ranked Choice Voting |

No way to AppV, no way to all single-winner election districts, no way to RCV and AppV male-dominated dictatorship control.

The new One Party is bringing the 539-party/caucus system and deadline for voting is April 1st 2021.

http://www.1ogle.com
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ANNOUNCEMENT
THE WAR ON WOMEN
By Women Voters for Liberty’s Sharon Presley

There is a war on women right now and it’s not in the Middle East. It’s right here in the US. Some might say there has been a war on women for centuries. True enough but this is a war new in its intensity and scope, an unrelenting attack on women and their bodily autonomy.
Let’s look at the evidence. For starters, here are six states that have already passed laws that ban abortion at six weeks, before most women even know they are pregnant. They know the federal courts will knock down the bans but they want it to go to the Supreme Court where they are hoping that the 6 conservatives (5 men and one woman) will uphold the bans and/or kick Roe v. Wade in the guts. More are on the way, according to the Guttmacher Institute: “Through April 11, 14 states have introduced, moved, or enacted 6-week bans this year, underscoring the extreme scope and unprecedented volume of these bills. Banning abortion at six weeks has emerged as a leading tactic for antiabortion politicians and activists, with the ultimate goal of challenging Roe v. Wade at the U.S. Supreme Court.”
But as the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute points out, it’s worse than that. “20 states have laws in effect that prohibit “partial-birth” abortion,” says Guttmacher. Another appalling example: “11 states restrict coverage of abortion in private insurance plans, most often limiting coverage only to when the woman’s life would be endangered if the pregnancy were carried to term.” Government telling private insurance companies what they may or may not cover!
Conservative religious groups are busy trying to prevent women from exercising bodily autonomy.
“Meanwhile, religious hospitals, especially Catholic ones, are gobbling up their secular counterparts and then imposing bishop-decreed restrictions on abortion care and birth control. Conservative, limited-government Republicans (particularly John Kasich, the alleged moderate) continue to enact Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (Trap laws), legislation cynically designed to be impossible with which to comply, so that clinics will be forced to close. And when none of those tactics work, there’s straightforward terrorism: Planned Parenthood clinics in Washington, California and elsewhere have been targeted by arson attacks.
Trump is part of this madness, doing everything he can to fight pro-choice people and positions and put anti-choice judges in positions of power. A Trump-appointed judge recently ruled, for example, that a procedure described as “nothing short of torture” is allowable.
“Before Donald Trump nominated him to the federal bench, John K. Bush was perhaps best known as an anti-gay blogger who spread birther conspiracies. Now he is a judge on the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. Bush was selected, in part, because of his conservative views on reproductive rights, including a belief that abortion is a tragedy on par with slavery. On Thursday, he transformed those views into law, upholding Kentucky’s “informed consent” law in an opinion overflowing with charged anti-abortion rhetoric.
The Kentucky law at issue is extraordinarily invasive. It requires abortion providers to perform an ultrasound, generally using a transvaginal probe for pregnancies of less than nine weeks, on all patients seeking to terminate their pregnancies. The provider must then describe the fetus in detailed terms, pointing out its organs, and play the sound of its heartbeat.”
Another way women are hurt: harsher sentences for women than for men for essentially the same crimes.
“In 2006, Robert Braxton Jr. was sentenced to probation plus two years time served for severely beating two of his girlfriend Tondalo Hall’s three children, but Hall herself was sentenced to 30 years in prison under the “failure to protect” law for permitting the abuse. Hall testified that she was also a victim of Braxton’s abuse. Yet, on her attorney’s advice, she entered a “blind plea” in which she admitted guilt without a deal from the prosecutor. Her sentence, and its seemingly disproportionate severity compared to Braxton’s, brought national attention to the unfair application of such laws, which carry potential life sentences in six states, including Oklahoma. In September, Hall’s request to have her sentence commuted was denied; her next chance to argue for commutation will be in three years.”
The abuser got two years, the mom got 30 years. What sense does that make? None at all. Unless you hate women, want to control them, or think they are more to blame than the men who actually perpetrate the abuse.
Not surprisingly, researchers have found that opposition to abortion is associated with sexist attitudes toward women. “Further, the study found that these sexist attitudes were based on a person’s idealization of motherhood as an essential element of womanhood. “The idealization of women – and motherhood, in particular – comes at a substantial cost, namely, the restriction of women’s reproductive rights,” say the study’s authors. That is, restrict women’s choices and actions.
It’s not just sexism but outright misogyny that is associated with anti-women attitudes and anti-women legislation:
“Deciding whether and when to have a child and whether or when to consent to sexual activity are both fundamentally about asserting autonomy over our own bodies. And both restrictions on abortion and the dismissal of sexual assault are about people in power — predominantly men — trying to strip away our dignity and roll back our march toward equality. We’ve seen it across this country as state legislatures have introduced more than 250 laws restricting abortion access since January 2019.”
This is hardly surprising. Taking away women’s bodily autonomy is profoundly and on the deepest level anti-women. It says a women’s body belongs to legislators who get to decide what women may or may not do with their bodies. It’s hardly surprising that women dressed as characters from the very pro-woman “The Handmaid’s Tale” are showing up frequently at protests.

Also not surprisingly. there is also a war against sex workers as documented in the book, The War on Whores. Regardless of what one thinks of sex work, from a libertarian perspective, it’s nobody’s business what other people do with their lives as long as they are not using coercion against others.

Then, there’s the libertarians who are willing to sell women down the river for a “sexy” candidate, namely Justin Amash, who is anti-choice. And not just anti-choice/forced birther but he is on record as stating he believes that “life begins at conception” and “will fight to protect life at all stages.” At all stages? What about the “stage” that includes women trying to protect themselves and their lives? Or the 11-year-old girl who was raped? Don’t their lives matter? Some claim Amash is a libertarian but I remain unconvinced. Not only does he want abortion forbidden by law, he is weak on immigrants and LGBT people. What is libertarian about that? Answer? Nothing. That didn’t prevent a prominent libertarian who I will not name publicly from accusing Harriet Joy and me of conducting a “jihad.” I am not making this up. That is the word he used. Why? Because we were criticizing a friend of his for being pro-Amash even though the friend is pro-choice. The libertarian who accused us of a jihad is against abortion (though not by law). I do know that he called Amash a libertarian.

We don’t care whether Amash is libertarian or not, which we doubt anyway. He is anti-choice. That’s all we need to know. The officers of the Association of Libertarian Feminists will not support any candidate who is anti-choice. Ever. Women’s bodily autonomy is too important. It is not negotiable. It is not an extra. If there is any jihad going on, it is against women’s right to choose and against women as independent acting beings.
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Comments

Stateline Magazine Article on Gains for Ranked Choice Voting — 6 Comments

Demo Rep on March 15, 2021 at 9:49 am said:

CONDORCET = RCV DONE RIGHT.
Andrew on March 15, 2021 at 9:54 am said:

Why do you think so?
Demo Rep on March 15, 2021 at 11:00 am said:

A.— THE MATH OF EACH.

RCV – F-A-T-A-L MATH —

34 Extremist AA
 33 Extremist ZZ
 32 Moderate MM
99
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MODERATES ARE SPLIT FOR 2ND CHOICE.
34 AA-MM-ZZ 
33 ZZ-MM-AA 
16 MM-AA-ZZ 
16 MM-ZZ-AA
99
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WITH RCV – 32 MM LOSES,
EXTREMIST AA BEATS EXTREMIST ZZ 50-49.
—
MM HAS 99 VOTES OF 99 VOTES IN 1+2 PLACES [APPROVAL VOTING].
HEAD TO HEAD—-
MM BEATS AA 65-34
MM BEATS ZZ 66-33
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ALSO REVERSE — ZZ HAS 50 VOTES IN LAST PLACE.
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Too many math MORONS to count hyping the timebomb RCV/IRV
— IE ESP RED COMMIES WANTING TO ELECT RED COMMIE HACKS IN GERRYMANDER DISTRICTS WITH THEIR *MANDATES* FROM HELL.
Math Correct = Condorcet =
HEAD TO HEAD – ALL COMBOS — WITH AV TIEBREAKER.

——-
COPY AND PASTE ON WALL.
TRY TO EDUCATE THE SUPER-MATH MORONS IN THE NEW AGE BRAIN DEAD POLITICS MEDIA.
Demo Rep on March 15, 2021 at 11:16 am said:

Condorcet in France noted the hesd to head math in early 1780s — 1780s.

Probable earlier folks also.

He was one more victim of the commie devil morons in the French revolution.
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Plurality-gerrymander AREA ROT got entrenched in USA in 1775-1776 – copy of Brit ROT.

ROT is NOW F-A-T-A-L — see 6 Jan 2021 USA Capitol invasion.

Gerrymander monarchs/oligarchs — TYRANTS — striking back in bill HR 1 —

to STAY in POWER — as with ALL earlier totted monarch/oligarch regimes in 6,000 plus years of rotted history.
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PR and APPV – pending Condorcet — math public education.
TOTSOP
James Ogle on March 15, 2021 at 8:06 pm said:

No way to AppV, no way to all single-winner election districts, no way to RCV and AppV male-dominated dictatorship control.

The new One Party is bringing the 539-party/caucus system and deadline for voting is April 1st 2021.

http://www.1ogle.com
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ANNOUNCEMENT
THE WAR ON WOMEN
By Women Voters for Liberty’s Sharon Presley

There is a war on women right now and it’s not in the Middle East. It’s right here in the US. Some might say there has been a war on women for centuries. True enough but this is a war new in its intensity and scope, an unrelenting attack on women and their bodily autonomy.
Let’s look at the evidence. For starters, here are six states that have already passed laws that ban abortion at six weeks, before most women even know they are pregnant. They know the federal courts will knock down the bans but they want it to go to the Supreme Court where they are hoping that the 6 conservatives (5 men and one woman) will uphold the bans and/or kick Roe v. Wade in the guts. More are on the way, according to the Guttmacher Institute: “Through April 11, 14 states have introduced, moved, or enacted 6-week bans this year, underscoring the extreme scope and unprecedented volume of these bills. Banning abortion at six weeks has emerged as a leading tactic for antiabortion politicians and activists, with the ultimate goal of challenging Roe v. Wade at the U.S. Supreme Court.”
But as the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute points out, it’s worse than that. “20 states have laws in effect that prohibit “partial-birth” abortion,” says Guttmacher. Another appalling example: “11 states restrict coverage of abortion in private insurance plans, most often limiting coverage only to when the woman’s life would be endangered if the pregnancy were carried to term.” Government telling private insurance companies what they may or may not cover!
Conservative religious groups are busy trying to prevent women from exercising bodily autonomy.
“Meanwhile, religious hospitals, especially Catholic ones, are gobbling up their secular counterparts and then imposing bishop-decreed restrictions on abortion care and birth control. Conservative, limited-government Republicans (particularly John Kasich, the alleged moderate) continue to enact Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (Trap laws), legislation cynically designed to be impossible with which to comply, so that clinics will be forced to close. And when none of those tactics work, there’s straightforward terrorism: Planned Parenthood clinics in Washington, California and elsewhere have been targeted by arson attacks.
Trump is part of this madness, doing everything he can to fight pro-choice people and positions and put anti-choice judges in positions of power. A Trump-appointed judge recently ruled, for example, that a procedure described as “nothing short of torture” is allowable.
“Before Donald Trump nominated him to the federal bench, John K. Bush was perhaps best known as an anti-gay blogger who spread birther conspiracies. Now he is a judge on the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. Bush was selected, in part, because of his conservative views on reproductive rights, including a belief that abortion is a tragedy on par with slavery. On Thursday, he transformed those views into law, upholding Kentucky’s “informed consent” law in an opinion overflowing with charged anti-abortion rhetoric.
The Kentucky law at issue is extraordinarily invasive. It requires abortion providers to perform an ultrasound, generally using a transvaginal probe for pregnancies of less than nine weeks, on all patients seeking to terminate their pregnancies. The provider must then describe the fetus in detailed terms, pointing out its organs, and play the sound of its heartbeat.”
Another way women are hurt: harsher sentences for women than for men for essentially the same crimes.
“In 2006, Robert Braxton Jr. was sentenced to probation plus two years time served for severely beating two of his girlfriend Tondalo Hall’s three children, but Hall herself was sentenced to 30 years in prison under the “failure to protect” law for permitting the abuse. Hall testified that she was also a victim of Braxton’s abuse. Yet, on her attorney’s advice, she entered a “blind plea” in which she admitted guilt without a deal from the prosecutor. Her sentence, and its seemingly disproportionate severity compared to Braxton’s, brought national attention to the unfair application of such laws, which carry potential life sentences in six states, including Oklahoma. In September, Hall’s request to have her sentence commuted was denied; her next chance to argue for commutation will be in three years.”
The abuser got two years, the mom got 30 years. What sense does that make? None at all. Unless you hate women, want to control them, or think they are more to blame than the men who actually perpetrate the abuse.
Not surprisingly, researchers have found that opposition to abortion is associated with sexist attitudes toward women. “Further, the study found that these sexist attitudes were based on a person’s idealization of motherhood as an essential element of womanhood. “The idealization of women – and motherhood, in particular – comes at a substantial cost, namely, the restriction of women’s reproductive rights,” say the study’s authors. That is, restrict women’s choices and actions.
It’s not just sexism but outright misogyny that is associated with anti-women attitudes and anti-women legislation:
“Deciding whether and when to have a child and whether or when to consent to sexual activity are both fundamentally about asserting autonomy over our own bodies. And both restrictions on abortion and the dismissal of sexual assault are about people in power — predominantly men — trying to strip away our dignity and roll back our march toward equality. We’ve seen it across this country as state legislatures have introduced more than 250 laws restricting abortion access since January 2019.”
This is hardly surprising. Taking away women’s bodily autonomy is profoundly and on the deepest level anti-women. It says a women’s body belongs to legislators who get to decide what women may or may not do with their bodies. It’s hardly surprising that women dressed as characters from the very pro-woman “The Handmaid’s Tale” are showing up frequently at protests.

Also not surprisingly. there is also a war against sex workers as documented in the book, The War on Whores. Regardless of what one thinks of sex work, from a libertarian perspective, it’s nobody’s business what other people do with their lives as long as they are not using coercion against others.

Then, there’s the libertarians who are willing to sell women down the river for a “sexy” candidate, namely Justin Amash, who is anti-choice. And not just anti-choice/forced birther but he is on record as stating he believes that “life begins at conception” and “will fight to protect life at all stages.” At all stages? What about the “stage” that includes women trying to protect themselves and their lives? Or the 11-year-old girl who was raped? Don’t their lives matter? Some claim Amash is a libertarian but I remain unconvinced. Not only does he want abortion forbidden by law, he is weak on immigrants and LGBT people. What is libertarian about that? Answer? Nothing. That didn’t prevent a prominent libertarian who I will not name publicly from accusing Harriet Joy and me of conducting a “jihad.” I am not making this up. That is the word he used. Why? Because we were criticizing a friend of his for being pro-Amash even though the friend is pro-choice. The libertarian who accused us of a jihad is against abortion (though not by law). I do know that he called Amash a libertarian.

We don’t care whether Amash is libertarian or not, which we doubt anyway. He is anti-choice. That’s all we need to know. The officers of the Association of Libertarian Feminists will not support any candidate who is anti-choice. Ever. Women’s bodily autonomy is too important. It is not negotiable. It is not an extra. If there is any jihad going on, it is against women’s right to choose and against women as independent acting beings.
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