Re:Vote by Mail: Ballot Fraud Risk, State Laws and Trump's C...
by klyrs on Thursday June 04, 2020 @12:08PM
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Yeah that would be a great start. Sorry state of affairs in Canada and the US is that even when politicians run on a platform of election reform, they change their tune because the system worked for them. The excuse I hear most often is some form of the electorate being too stupid to navigate such a complicated system.
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Re:Vote by Mail: Ballot Fraud Risk, State Laws and Trump's C...
by rsynnott on Thursday June 04, 2020 @02:22PM
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The _fairest_ PR systems actually are very complicated, which is why they're rarely used in practice. Systems like PR-STV, though, are both a lot fairer than first past the post, and relatively understandable (in countries that use them, most people understand the basic mechanics, and _everyone_ understands them well enough to use them correctly, even if the subtleties are lost on most people).