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Sarah Drasner
@sarah_edo
1 Dec 2016
Being in other countries & being asked why, even though Clinton got more votes, Trump won, really drives home how broken our "democracy" is.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social
@davidbaron
1 Dec 2016
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@GregWildSmith
@wycats
@sarah_edo
A proportional system like MMP (not IRV) gives a pretty representative legislature, which is stable-ish 1/
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social
@davidbaron
1 Dec 2016
Replying to
@davidbaron
@wycats
@sarah_edo
But the advantage to a system with a clear winner (e.g., UK) is the winner gets to keep their promises 2/
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social
@davidbaron
1 Dec 2016
& then voters see (a) what those promises lead to, or (b) that they don't believe their own policies 3/3
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