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0 pointssofixa6mo ago0 comments

> For one, even in typical modern democracies, the active administration is chosen by like a third of the voting population via a first-pass-the-post system or a close analog of it

"typical modern democracies" don't use the extremely terrible first past the post. It's mostly used in the UK and a few former colonies, but most of the world's democracies (even the flawed ones) have realised its shortcomings and have evolved past it.

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perching_aix6mo ago

In its current incarnations, it is not just pure FPTP, but "mixed" with other systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting#Cou...

This list includes Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, etc...

Not that only FPTP is terrible either - it is just what people evoke when they say "well xy people voted for this, right?". In more fair systems, the voted person or party may not even have been their first or second choice, so that on its own violates this notion again too, just differently.

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0 pointssofixa6mo ago0 comments

> For one, even in typical modern democracies, the active administration is chosen by like a third of the voting population via a first-pass-the-post system or a close analog of it

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perching_aix6mo ago

In its current incarnations, it is not just pure FPTP, but "mixed" with other systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting#Cou...

This list includes Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, etc...

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