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Re:Watson for President by nitrogen on Saturday February 06, 2016 @01:19PM (#11048921)
Our first step should be replacing first-past-the-post voting with something that isn't mathematically guaranteed to result in a polarized two-party system.
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Re:Watson for President by r3dk1ng on Saturday February 06, 2016 @08:06PM (#11050968)
something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting?
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Re:Watson for President by nitrogen on Sunday February 07, 2016 @01:50PM (#11054146)
IRV has the problem where gaining support can actually cost one the election (nonmonotonicity). From http://zesty.ca/voting/sim it seems that approval voting would work reasonably well.
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