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The Problems with First Past the Post Voting : Explained

Why first past the post is a terrible voting system.


Added: Aug-31-2012 Occurred On: Aug-31-2012
By: mphatik
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Tags: voting, november, obama, romney, two, party, system, is, bad,
Location: United States (load item map)
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  • What's worse than the 2-party system?

    1) one-party system, like China (my way or the highway)

    2) Infinite-party system, like Italy (changes every month)

    3) Last, best hope 3rd-party system, like Perot (ends up putting the worst in office)

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  • Nice. But there is an even bigger problem. Namely the very premise of the whole system! What makes it right for a majority to rule over all minorities? Nothing! It is just another "might is right" situation. Strength in numbers ensures that opposition is crushed. How can a small minority ever compete with a large majority?

    Well, it would be in the situation that they have many parties, and they get the most votes as in the first example. But that is, as we already know, a bad situati More..

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  • HOLY CRAP That was excellent! Now you know why our system sucks, voters are apathetic, all our politicians are jerks, and perhaps you can even understand that people like Ron Paul and Ralph Nader are just misguided boobs.

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  • I just voted for this video but I'm not sure if it counted..............

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  • Shite.

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