Reply #5: Fusion Voting is a workable and good solution

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Fusion Voting actually strengthens third parties without creating a spoiler effect.
With fusion voting, you can actually get your issues promoted by endorsing candidates who
support those views.

Fusion voting is simple to understand and does not require complex counting methods, does not require a ton of voter ed, and can be counted easily by hand or the existing voting systems.

On the other hand, IRV is NOT additive, in that you cannot just simply add up the vote totals at the polling places in order to get a winner. You have to sort, shuffle, and eliminate and transfer votes individually.

North Carolina was very progressive when we had fusion voting, at that time, in the late 1800s,
we had 1,000 elected black officials, and the white supremacists couldn't get elected.

Then the white supremacists (at that time in NC it was the Dems) executed an actual coup and
took over govt, threw people out of office, took away the right to vote from black citizens, and
got rid of fusion voting.

The White Supremacists cut a deal with big business to keep their taxes down if BB would help them get back in office. (Sound familar?)