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What's the alternative?
by sudodudeo 2y ago
What's the alternative?
- globular-toast 2y agoOther voting systems like alternative vote (aka instant-runoff voting, ranked-choice voting) etc.
- FeepingCreature 2y agoAny of a number of better voting systems that mean that having a third party doesn't harm the party it's closest to.
- actionfromafar 2y agoNot using first-past-the-post. Almost any other system in use is better.
- ben_w 2y agoRequire more than two parties, and have proportional representation. If team "east side" and team "west side" are butting up against each other with the hope of the 50%±1 of the population behind them all being on their side, but suddenly one or both of them has to face factions behind them splitting off — well, it's like how often the US Democrats are upset about the US Green Party "splitting the vote" (do US Republicans have the same reaction to the Libertarians? Libertarians barely get in the news here on the other side of the Atlantic). I think that without proportional representation, that just pushes the half-way point further from the new party. Can anyone who has actually studied this confirm or refute? I'm in danger of LARPing XKCD here: https://xkcd.com/793/ https://xkcd.com/793/ Then there's sortition. I'm intrigued, but have no opinion on how good it would be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
- Gud 2y agohttps://www.eda.admin.ch/aboutswitzerland/en/home/politik-geschichte/politisches-system.html#:~:text=Switzerland%20is%20a%20direct%20democracy,decisions%20are%20made%20by%20consensus https://www.eda.admin.ch/aboutswitzerland/en/home/politik-ge....