• UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Usually this is where I would make a long winded comment on replacing First-past-the-post voting with a voting system that allows more then two parties to exist without a spoiler effect… but that time has long since passed us by.

    Good luck out there yall.

    • nightlily@leminal.space
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      3 days ago

      Germany and New Zealand both have a Mixed Member Proportional voting system but centre right coalition governments with a strong far-right influence currently hold the majority in both those countries. Things would undoubtedly be worse with FPTP, but proportional voting is not a magic bullet either.

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      3 days ago

      Nothing is stopping either party from implementing that, if they care to do so. So I guess some pressure to do so would be nice.