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End FPTP (First Past The Post) — discussion of electoral systems that are not FPTP
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What is First Past The Post (FPTP)?
FPTP is a voting system where each voters submits their vote for one candidate, and the candidate with the most votes wins.
Why is FPTP bad?
- Because FPTP hurts candidates who have similar positions, it leads to a two-party system.
- FPTP creates wasted votes and excess votes.
- FPTP strongly encourages tactical voting.
- FPTP allows for gerrymandering
What are some good alternatives?
- Cardinal Voting Systems
- Ranked Voting Systems
- Schulze Method
- IRV
- Borda Count
- STV (Multi-winner)
- Proportional Representation Systems (For multi-winner elections)
- Mixed Electoral Systems (For multi-winner elections)
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You describe a situation where the public is almost equally divided between the first preference for three candidates. This rarely happens. Be that as it may...
Your donkey vote example I am happy to surrender to as if by a roll of the dice. In the USA, where voting is done electronically, it is easy enough to randomly order candidates for each voter.
The second example, while unfortunate, again is an almost random outcome in a finely balanced field. The two voters still may as well in future put their favorite in the top position despite it randomly turning out to not benefit that candidate.
In such a finely balanced field, the last poster voters see can influence the outcome. The colour of the sunset that day could too.
I looked it up on Wikipedia:
But I didn't intend to provide any donkey vote examples.