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|[[File:NYTime Front Page.jpg|center|thumb|[https://abc7news.com/joe-biden-kamala-harris-presidential-election-newspaper-front-pages/7773248/ Kayla Galloway 11/08/2020 ABC News 7]]] | |[[File:NYTime Front Page.jpg|center|thumb|[https://abc7news.com/joe-biden-kamala-harris-presidential-election-newspaper-front-pages/7773248/ Kayla Galloway 11/08/2020 ABC News 7]]] | ||
===== New York City might elect a truly progressive mayor – thanks to ranked-choice voting ===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2025/jun/18/zohran-mamdani-ranked-choice-voting by Katrina Vanden Heuvel 18/6/25 The Guardian] | |||
With a week left until New York’s Democratic mayoral primary, one might have thought that the former governor Andrew Cuomo would be measuring the drapes at Gracie Mansion. Real estate developers, corporations like Doordash, a smattering of billionaires and even Billy Joel have shoveled cash into his campaign, with his Super Pac spending more money than any other outside force in the city’s political history. This is on top of his entering the race with major name recognition advantage, amounting to a 20- or 30-point lead as recently as May. | |||
=====Billionaire-funded group driving effort to erode democracy in key US states===== | =====Billionaire-funded group driving effort to erode democracy in key US states===== | ||
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/23/foundation-government-accountability-democracy Brendan Fischer 6/23/2023 The Guardian ] | [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/23/foundation-government-accountability-democracy Brendan Fischer 6/23/2023 The Guardian] | ||
The Foundation for Government Accountability, a Florida-based group affiliated with the alliance of conservative thinktanks called the State Policy Network, has played a key role in recent efforts to raise the threshold for passing citizen ballot initiatives from a simple majority to a supermajority, and to make it harder to place measures on the ballot in the first place. | The Foundation for Government Accountability, a Florida-based group affiliated with the alliance of conservative thinktanks called the State Policy Network, has played a key role in recent efforts to raise the threshold for passing citizen ballot initiatives from a simple majority to a supermajority, and to make it harder to place measures on the ballot in the first place. | ||
[https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/trump-proved-authoritarians-can-get-elected-america/617023/?fbclid=IwAR29xKpLj6qT1zhuC76Natq4A8gteSg8eXsDH6gJ8pJWWCHZH3qHy11YBIM The Atlantic NOVEMBER 6, 2020 Zeynep Tufekci] | [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/trump-proved-authoritarians-can-get-elected-america/617023/?fbclid=IwAR29xKpLj6qT1zhuC76Natq4A8gteSg8eXsDH6gJ8pJWWCHZH3qHy11YBIM The Atlantic NOVEMBER 6, 2020 Zeynep Tufekci] | ||
"And they have at their disposal certain features that can be mobilized: The Electoral College and especially the Senate are anti-majoritarian institutions, and they can be combined with other efforts to subvert majority rule." | "And they have at their disposal certain features that can be mobilized: The Electoral College and especially the Senate are anti-majoritarian institutions, and they can be combined with other efforts to subvert majority rule." | ||
