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Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map by bzbarsky on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @11:50PM (#16121469)
3rd parties are already so screwed, I don't even know where to start fixing the problems. For example, last I checked in Illinois third-party candidates needed _way_ more petition signatures to even get on a ballot than Republican or Democratic ones (though the legislation is careful to not call out the Republican or Democratic parties by name; it's written in terms of vote share in the previous election). That sort of thing is all over the place.

As a mathematical exercise, trying to extend the game to more than 2 parties is interesting, for sure. Real-world relevance is unclear, unfortunately.

Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map by tripzilch on Saturday January 13, 2018 @03:56PM (#16141353)
But if you're not even going to pretend 3rd parties (and 4th, 5th, etc) are even a remote possibility, you may as well give up pretending your democracy actually has the sort of good qualities that makes people prefer it over other types of government... (a hair's breadth away from calling it "not a democracy" because technically you still got to choose Kang over Kodos)