• pyre@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      the method which almost the entire world uses in one way or another?

      no it totally make sense that if a candidate wins a state by 50.1% then the votes of the 49.9% should go directly to the winner as well.

      the fact that you can lose the popular vote and is win an election is fucking bananas.

      winner takes all is extremely undemocratic.

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        the fact that you can lose the popular vote and is win an election is fucking bananas

        That is not due to winner-take-all, it’s due to the electoral college

          • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            it votes for single seat positions. you can call it a winner take all or proportional or whatever you want, functionally it will be the same.

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          Either you fell into establishment propaganda or peddler of it. Any system will develop extremists no matter what, if the establishment are too corrupt, and people are pushed to look for alternatives. Canadian PM Trudeau scrapped his first-term election promise of ranked choice voting after “looking into Europe” and said the same thing as you; and yet the Canadians have developed their own far-right lunatics over the years. And US has the Republican Party morphing already into another fascist party, all without copying any sort of multiple choice voting system from others or developing their own.

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        All the people arguing for RCV are hoping it will solve their problems. I’m skeptical.

        There are loads of other voting systems in action out there. Some of them guarantee full proportional representation to their respective countries. Generally what we see in those countries is a ton of different small, special interest parties with a few seats apiece. Then you end up with these bizarre coalitions where a bunch of unrelated special interests band together to form a government which roughly half the population ends up hating anyway. Israel is a prime example of that.