When electing powerful leaders, elections should uphold majority rule. Winners are more representative, have clearer mandates & engage more voters. Let’s review examples of consequential non-majority wins in elections without ranked choice voting or effective runoffs.
Thread 1/x It’s timely to spotlight this value as we celebrate Martin Luther King. Jr. Rev. King urged us “to make real the promise of democracy.” As we build a more perfect union, let's look for better ways to elect majorities & the minorities who together form those majorities.
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The U.S. Senate will vote on the Freedom to Vote Act this week & on the John Lewis Act soon. An argument being used against them is that Congress shouldn’t pass voting standards. That’s a false argument contradicted by the U.S. Constitution & our political history.

Thread 1/ 2/The Constitution establishes it. Here’s Act 1, Section 4 “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations.”..