• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    it’s not useless, but it is very close to it.

    there’s very little that voting will do, but it’s easy if you live in a liberal enough place, so you might as well use it to write in leftist candidates on your ballot.

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      6 hours ago

      There’s indeed benefits about this now that I think about it again.

      1. The party can gauge it’s local strength

      2. A higher score could make people interested in the party.

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        5 hours ago

        agreed, but on the flip side, it identify targets for the dnc to suppress and this is A LOT more likely to happen since leftists parties cannot officially operate in most liberal jurisdictions as a party (because of the dnc).

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          5 hours ago

          So i’ll need to compare the potential benefits to the potential downsides.

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            3 hours ago

            It’s still a benefit either way; worse case scenario is that the DNC has to burn resources to cancel your vote out in the next election. Lol