I'm voting for MA Question 2 Ranked Choice Voting. There's more than one kind of Ranked Choice Voting, and it matters, and "Instant Runoff Voting" is just about the worst, but it might help Massachusetts break out of some ways it's stuck in its Democratic Party machine lock-in on local politics. I don't want Charlie Baker or Scott Brown, I want something else and RCV gives us more of a chance. Right now in 2020 we're facing a US Senator election where the real race was in the primary and the general election is a really likely win for the incumbent Democrat Ed Markey (who I think is doing a fine job). But I don't love the D party and don't want to be stuck with it and don't want people on the other side feeling stuck with the R party. Ranked Choice Voting gives us a potential way of stepping outside the two party system, and locally and nationally the two parties are an increasingly vitriolic rotting mess. So, Yes on MA-2 RCV, let's try it, and maybe make it better soon?
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