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Cory Booker Demands that congress fund Israel in Wake of Attacks from Palestine - October 2023 (www.booker.senate.gov)
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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You can't vote against somebody in the US. You can only vote for people.

A vote of "no confidence" would be great, though; the idea being that if "no confidence" won, they'd have to re-run the election with all new candidates!

[–] Coldcell@sh.itjust.works -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's the essence of proportional representation, you get to say a quantifiable amount of approval. However, in a two party 'someone -will- win' type system, voting for one party is directly equivalent to voting against the other. Abstaining from voting has absolutely no effect (if 98% of voters abstained, the remaining 2% would still decide the leader)

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

I voted for an anti-genocide candidate: Jill Stein.