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Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ... by PeterisP on Saturday November 07, 2020 @04:31PM (#25019651)
Killing the two party duopoly requires significant constitutional changes to how elections are held. One way to do that would be ranked choice voting as implemented in e.g. Maine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_Un...).

However, the key point is that such a system would mainly benefit a potential third party, but any changes to the system need to be agreed upon by the current representatives whose interests and reelection would be hurt by such a change.

Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ... by 8note on Saturday November 07, 2020 @04:33PM (#25019680)
Trudeau lost my vote by not going for this in canada, but the problems did hilight that there's a lot of alternatives and choosing a specific replacement is hard.

Most agree that FPTP is bad, but nobody agrees on what to replace it with

Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ... by Dylan16807 on Saturday November 07, 2020 @06:10PM (#25020659)
Just pick a major one, they're all good in similar ways.