David Green

Political Organizer, Data Analyst, Performer, Educator

[David Green @DavidTheGreen]

@OnlyInBOS Yes! Currently November is a joke (completely uncontested) even though it's when most people vote. Q3 would make politicians have to actually compete for our votes.

[David Green @DavidTheGreen]

@njkingsbury57 @OnlyInBOS It helps third parties: a third party has never won in at least 100 years in MA under the current system. With Q3, they'd be allowed to leverage fusion endorsements

[David Green @DavidTheGreen]

@bdoherty83 @OnlyInBOS Both parties oppose it (so you know it's a good thing)

[James Nichols-Worley @JNicholsWorley]

Preview from me: All politics is local, but local politics is disappearing. My new research into MA's local elections show 18.7% turnout in 2025, near historic lows. To my knowledge, this is the first collection of all 351/351 local election results for a single year. #mapoli

[David Green @DavidTheGreen]

@JonathanCohn Huh? That doesn’t make any sense: if MA voters overwhelmingly dislike Trump, then giving them a real choice in the high-turnout, diverse, young November election will not help a Trumpy candidate win. It will make it so most registered voters have a choice tho instead of <20%!

[David Green @DavidTheGreen]

@WorkishFromHome @KFILE Well said 👏

[David Green @DavidTheGreen]

@Noumenon72 @Jlrube If you only vote for one or only vote for unpopular candidates, you are expressing the limited preferences we have under non-RCV

[David Green @DavidTheGreen]

@Noumenon72 @Jlrube Voter education is key: by not ranking the maximum, you are saying you have no preference between the remaining candidates. Which is often true for voters who only care about one candidate! (Think many Adams voters in 2021.)

[David Green @DavidTheGreen]

@elonmusk Did someone say Ranked Choice Voting so this new third party could avoid the spoiler effect and be viable? 👀

[David Green @DavidTheGreen]

@AndrewYang @elonmusk @Fwd_Party Haha glad to see you here! Let’s get ranked choice voting so third parties can win!

[David Green @DavidTheGreen]

@hankgreen This is especially cool given my dad is an MIT professor with exactly the same birth name as you!! 😆💯

[David Green @DavidTheGreen]

@aaronfhamlin 5) AK wrote the law so they wouldn't run tabulations immediately and had to wait 2 weeks, but this isn't a fault of RCV
6) Under approval, if I wanted Palin far more than Begich but approved both, there's a good chance my vote would help B & hurt P

[David Green @DavidTheGreen]

@aaronfhamlin To your points:
1) RCV indeed privileges first choices, which I think is fair.
2) Begich failed to secure as many first choice votes as either
3) I think approval voters would be asked to bullet vote, whereas RCV is very hard to game
4) Fair

[David Green @DavidTheGreen]

@aaronfhamlin Have there been fiercely partisan, big-money real-world approval elections like in Alaska? I don't know of any, and I hypothesize it would results in far more strategic voting.

[David Green @DavidTheGreen]

@aaronfhamlin I read your article and I don't think you factored in Begich->Peltola voters enough- Peltola overall had broader support than Palin. I agree Begich would have been more vaguely palatable to more Alaskans but neither FPTP nor approval would get us to him.

[David Green @DavidTheGreen]

@aaronfhamlin We see voters oblige all the time to what campaigns advise, especially when a voting system is new: "just vote for me" is an easy command to follow. Bullet voting is way too much of a vulnerability for approval and can take us back to FPTP.

[David Green @DavidTheGreen]

@alohatrav How is RCV fraudulent? Here's an explainer on how it works: https://t.co/KPWcfyyor2

[David Green @DavidTheGreen]

@DavidBlaska2 What are you talking about? There were 37,000 signatures submitted compared to 158,000 yes votes https://t.co/3tus6TXdfL

[David Green @DavidTheGreen]

@SpaghettiKozak @joerogan @JohnFetterman Yeah Fetterman sounds like such an idiot here; Democrats are so outrageously dumb for not sending Harris or Walz or Buttigieg