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Electoral fusion in the United States (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Quite a bad wiki article in my opinion. Why were they banned? No explanation at all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Um...there is a mention-

In northern and western states, fusion was largely banned by Republican-led legislatures. One Republican Minnesota state legislator said: "We don't propose to allow the Democrats to make allies of the Populists, Prohibitionists, or any other party, and get up combination tickets against us. We can whip them single-handed, but don't intend to fight all creation."[12] In southern states, fusion was largely banned by Democrats who supported Jim Crow, in an attempt to prevent political alliances between newly-enfranchised Black voters and poor white farmers.[1

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

That might have been true 50 years ago, but the most recent bans were after 2000. That is clearly not the reasoning anymore.

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