We talk about elections: Voting rights, popular vote, jungle primaries, and more
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The United States has what’s effectively a beta version of Democracy with a fair number of bug fixes. While other countries, especially New Zealand have moved on to Democracy 4.0.
New Zealand system:
– You vote for party, not person. Each party has candidate lists
– Each district is has more than one person in parliament
– It’s ranked choice voting
– Everyone who wins a seat, gets their seats
– Parties who don’t win enough seats to be represented get extra seats
Voting Rights
Presidential elections
– Electoral College
– National Popular Votes Interstate Compact
Jungle Primaries
– Open Primaries
– Top 2
– Top 4 with Ranked Choice
Sources:
https://ballotpedia.org/Top-two_primary
https://openprimariesid.org/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
https://www.axios.com/2023/09/26/supreme-court-alabama-gop-congressional-map
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