Re:Ugly Gerry – Gerrymandering font
by ajuc on Thursday January 26, 2023 @03:58AM
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Proportional voting system makes gerrymandering (almost completely) pointless.
The "almost" is there only because there's probably some threshold below which votes are wasted - and the wasted votes need to be reassigned to the other candidates somehow, which makes it not exactly proportional. But in practice it's not a big enough incentive to gerrymander.
The problem with democracy is that any bugs in the process are how people who can fix them are elected, so there's negative incentive to fix them and positive incentive to abuse them even more. I'm of the opinion that a well-functioning democracy needs revolution every century to fix the accumulated trash.
The "almost" is there only because there's probably some threshold below which votes are wasted - and the wasted votes need to be reassigned to the other candidates somehow, which makes it not exactly proportional. But in practice it's not a big enough incentive to gerrymander.
The problem with democracy is that any bugs in the process are how people who can fix them are elected, so there's negative incentive to fix them and positive incentive to abuse them even more. I'm of the opinion that a well-functioning democracy needs revolution every century to fix the accumulated trash.