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[โ€“] [email protected] 126 points 1 year ago (4 children)

First Past the Post voting at elections.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Approval Voting and multi-winner districts let's gooooooo!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still salty about that broken Liberal promise to reform our elections. None of the parties care about it and it seems no one wants to try to change it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wouldโ€™ve thought the NDP would have held onto that like a dog with a bone.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What country? In my country everyone knows that's a scam.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

UK

We had a referendum and people voted to keep the scam.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Only because AV was even worse.

It wasn't a PR system, it was just FPTP with a hat on.