btw, in case you haven't been exposed to this idea before:

"every person gets one vote and the candidate with the most votes wins" (First Past the Post) is a terrible and undemocratic way to run elections.

Better systems let you give a ranked preference and mean you can't "waste" your vote on a third party.

ncase.me/ballot/

an electoral system that I *really* like but works for electing a slate of representatives instead of one winner is Single Transferable Vote

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_t

I still kinda wonder what a polity that used Approval voting would look like longterm. Approval encourages extremely centrist candidates.

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