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Cleveland Voted to Kill Its Flock Camera Network. They Have REMAINED ON, With Police Still Using Them
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2026
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How can we claim consent of the governed when the governed cannot say no?
Electoral Democracy has four required mechanism: Ranked Voting, Lottery Option, Recall Mechanism, Randomized Districting. The United States does not qualify as a democracy. Few of the states, cities, and counties within it are even on the democratic spectrum with one of those mechanisms.
Happy 250th our government is illegitimate.
Correct. Just competitive authoritarianism at this point.
I'm fond of the phrase "electoral oligarchy".
Did you vote for an oligarch?
The electoral college did.
No, we just vote for which person the oligarchs buy and own.
So it's more of an electoral puppet show?