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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was going to say this. The older democratic systems (easily identified by 1st-past-the-post) are falling apart at the seams, but the rest of us is (relatively) fine. Places like the US and UK need to change their system, but politicians have an incentive not to change anything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Switzerland's isn't so young either. It dates back to Napoleonic times.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Would France classify as an older system since they have a non-proportional 2-round system?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Places like the US and UK need to change their system, but politicians have an incentive not to change anything.

Fortunately with the US, its decentralized system allows experimentation at the state and local level. My city (Portland, OR) just switched to ranked choice voting for city council along with a host of other changes. Voters statewide will soon be able to vote on using RCV for state races. Meanwhile, ranked choice has been implemented in several other states and localities across the country. It will take a while, but I think ranked choice will become the norm within a few decades.

[–] Psephomancy 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately the form of RCV used everywhere in the US is Hare's method, which eliminates candidates based only on voters' first-choice rankings, which largely just perpetuates all the same problems as FPTP. There are many other better reforms. One of those should become the norm instead.