I've been thinking a lot about electoral reform after the Canadian elections yesterday. I've been feeling really disillusioned about the likelihood of abolishi

I've been thinking a lot about electoral reform after the Canadian elections yesterday. I've been feeling really disillusioned about the likelihood of abolishing first-past-the-post because of the current incentive structures, but is changing the way we vote municipally maybe the beginning of the answer? The barrier to get getting municipal electoral reform might be lower because of the general lower stakes, shorter terms, and because it's a more direct form of democracy. If voters are used to voting with IRV municipally, get to understand it better as a result, and perhaps like the outcomes better, it might be easier to get a critical mass of the population to demand reform.