Every one has a bias at least they own it. As long as they are not pretending to be unbiased I'm fine with it.
Free exchange of ideas is my ultimate goal but the average voter doesn't share this goal, they get their information from "authoritative" sources such as "their" party or the mass media.
We did have a vote to bring in the alternate vote but every major party (left and right) and media outlet (left and right) slammed it as anti-democratic.
We can't depend on the average voter to get informed and vote representatively because the system intentionally prevents this.
If you mean switch from FPTP to some form of RCV for executive positions or proportional representation (PR) for assemblies, then I agree.
For RCV, I strongly prefer Approval Voting, which best balances fairness and simplicity.
But we'll get the most benefits from PR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vot...
Approval Voting would be simple, easy to understand and a vast improvemnet.
Yup don't really care what the new vote is. I live in Northern Ireland where we have single transferable vote I think its great.
It hasn't fixed our two party system but I have noticed a dramatic change in the way people think about voting.
For the most part people no longer feel the need to vote against some one and now vote for who they want, I have also noticed people seem to feel their vote is worth more as a result.
Almost nobody gets into politics without a reason. Nobody is going to put effort into something without an objective to achieve. Nobody is unbiased. And trying to treat good and bad ideas the same way, or honest and dishonest people, is doomed to encourage the bad to drive out the good.
When all the belligerents, err aspirants, certify the results, then it's probably good enough.
(disclosure, I helped initiate the doc)
In this case - FPTP - the tactics are to identify the (usually two) candidates that most plausibly could win in your district and pick from those, ignoring all other candidates. If Apples win with 310 votes and Bears had 290 votes, those Apple-haters who gave Cheese 60 votes to come in a distant third are kicking themselves.
For many (millions of?) voters in the UK the idea is to achieve a specific outcome on a single issue (Brexit) which is not actually on the ballot at all, so tactics come into deciding how to vote so as to make your preferred outcome more likely to occur.