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Re:Live Presidential Forecast by PDoyle on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @10:28PM (#12905853)
I'm not sure it's the only way. There are ranked-ballot systems that are good too, like Single Transferable Vote.

The point is, first-past-the-post has almost every possible flaw you can have in a voting system.

Re:Live Presidential Forecast by quadrangle on Saturday November 12, 2016 @10:14PM (#12941649)
Nope STV is not so good, it still falls to Arrow's Impossibility Theorem which applies to every single rank voting system.

Sure, first-past-the-post is horrid, but if you expend political will, time, power, energy, money to reform the voting system, it's a tragedy to replace a horrible system with a bad one when we actually know of a good one. We will not get infinite, costless resources and chances for voting reform.