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two party system is a scam (lemmy.ca)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Criticism of the comic aside, two party system is still definitely undesirable. I believe it is a side effect of first past the post voting. What we really should implement is ranked choice voting. It gets rid of the dumb "voting third party is voting for [opposite party]" argument by letting you vote for who you want guilt-free and falling back on your lower-ranked votes if #1 wasn't popular enough.

But you know, this will always meet resistance because politicians would lose their jobs for implementing this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STAR_voting

STAR voting allows you to say "I refuse to vote for this candidate at all," which certain implementations of RCV do not. It can and has ended up with candidates no one wanted winning in Australia, and other places that have implemented RCV