I’m hearing alot about the structural flaws of First past the post voting these days. Glad to see more people talking about the topic. Let’s start making plans to fix this once and for all so people are free to vote how they want.

    • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      I can’t see the red states ever getting on board with this, since the only way they’ve ever won is via the college and not the popular. They would be resigning their historical preference (based on history of the vote). Am I wrong? This seems to me to be how it stands.

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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        20 days ago

        Republicans are legislating to protect First Past the Post voting. Florida already has banned Ranked Choice voting (but there are many other voting systems we could use).

        So why haven’t the democrats passed electoral reform in states they control? Why do they want to continue using the voting system republicans prefer? Isn’t the republicans liking something a ultragigagigantic red flag?

  • otp@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    21 days ago

    Well, my province made it illegal for cities to decide to use anything other than FPTP.

    The province is likely to elect the same leader because we have a 30% voter turnout because people aren’t politically aware (and because our population is blaming Provincial problems on the Federal government).

  • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    20 days ago

    I’m not from the US but we do have FPtP here. I propose that all political positions should be filled in a manner similar to selecting a jury. Grab a bunch of citizens at random, do some vetting, install those that pass into the various positions. Three year limit. All major national policy votes taken via a (digital, on your phone) referendum. I strongly believe the only way to save politics is to remove “professional politicians” from the mix.

  • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    21 days ago

    Top-two primary and/or ranked choice voting to start. I’d also like to see the popular vote compact come into play for the presidential election. Eventually, for Congress I’d like a hybrid system that accepts the existence of parties so it can manage their worst impulses and give representation to smaller constituencies.

    For the remaining geographic regions, set a certain standard for mathematical compactness; this doesn’t have to be too aggressive, as a long thin district can be completely sensible, but we don’t need the devil’s fractals many places have now. Also/or require districting committees to try to draw districts that would roughly approximate the state’s popular vote percentages. We know they’re excellent at isolating voters by party, so let them, but force them to play around on the edges to get one seat here, or get out front of some changing demographics here, not the wholesale cracking and packing we see from both parties now.

    It also all needs to be legislated at the federal level or even by constitutional amendment, but honestly we’re kind of fucked. The people who need to be reined in the most very much live in states where they are overrepresented in voting power, and I don’t see them giving it up.

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      20 days ago

      You should check out STAR voting if you are concerned about using Ranked Choice voting with many candidates.