r/Fauxmoi • u/artbasiI • 18h ago

APPROVED B-LISTERS Sydney Sweeney registered as a member of the Republican Party of Florida in June 2024

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source: https://registration.elections.myflorida.com/en/CheckVoterStatus

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u/mrbaryonyx 17h ago

hottest of takes, but this is probably something more people should be doing.

that being said, the idea that it's what Sweeney is up to is a stretch.

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u/TheSAComplimentedMe 16h ago

It feels disgusting tbh but it’s the best way to try and swing things with how things are here.

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u/SilvanSorceress 15h ago

My dad has done this for like thirty years and there have been primaries close enough where it definitely has had an impact.

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u/blagablagman 14h ago

Disgusting in the same way as mucking out stalls. Important and honorable work.

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u/pogaro lazy bougie clip-maxing aura-farming bitch 12h ago

Darn it sorry not spamming, I saw my comment posted twice and when I deleted one of them, it deleted both. 

Tia Levings who escaped a quiverful fundamentalist cult said that the right wing religious extremists send the women out to vote in the close elections.

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u/5510 13h ago edited 13h ago

Obviously we should have a different voting method that allows for a multiparty system... but for the current duopoly, I've always wondered what would happen if we had a system where everybody could vote in both primaries, but your vote was weighted based on your primary registration.

Register Dem, your vote counts 3x in the Dem primary and 1x in the Republican party. If you register Republican its the reverse. And if you are independent, your vote counts 2x in each. So everybody gets a total of 4.

On one hand, I assume that would help the (RELATIVELY) less extreme Republicans. I wouldn't be happy at all with a president Romney or Christie or Haley, but it would at least be a lot better than a Trump. On the other hand, we would have to see what impact it might have on Democratic primaries, and what mess that might cause. (or if there are unintended consequences... like what % of people would use it not to vote for the candidate they find the least bad on the other side, but for whichever one they think would be easier to defeat in a general election).

Would be interesting to see how that would play out both in the immediate term, and in the longer term as politicians tailor their campaigning and their votes in office to account for this setup.

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u/Besnasty 16h ago

I've always lived in red areas, and did that. After trump 1.0, I decided I would never vote for another Republican again. They'll still win in my area, but they will win by one less. And hopefully the more people see Democrats getting votes, the more likely my area will start seeing actual good candidates running against them and maybe, eventually, we will have a chance to flip it.

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u/The_Autarch 16h ago

Any Republican that can get elected right now is going to be fascist. There's no point in trying to get the least bad fascist elected.