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i agree i kinda wish we had a parliamentary system right now, but I feel that online voting could be done if it can be done in a secure way, but parliamentary s
by zzzzzzzza 4y ago
i agree i kinda wish we had a parliamentary system right now, but I feel that online voting could be done if it can be done in a secure way, but parliamentary system won't happen. then again i don't think online voting will happen either (that is, you could at least implement online voting locally but you can't switch to parliamentary system without changing the entire country)
- dane-pgp 4y agoThe question of Parliamentary vs. Presidential is orthogonal to that of Proportional vs. Plurality. (Sorry if that terminology just makes things more confusing). To give a concrete example, the UK uses the same plurality voting system as (most of) the US, which leads to the same two-party dynamics, even though the UK has a parliamentary system. There's nothing stopping US states from adopting a more proportional system while keep Congress and the Presidency the same. In fact, Maine adopted Ranked Choice Voting to achieve that in 2018, and Alaska followed this year[0]. (Actually RCV is not guaranteed to produce more proportional results, but it can stop vote-splitting and lesser-of-two-evils tactical voting, which makes the outcomes better reflect the true wishes of the voters). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_Un...
- zzzzzzzza 4y agothanks for the correction, i had conflated the two for some reason in my head.