tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054910627465846465.post914367371303518038..comments2024-03-27T22:19:42.121-07:00Comments on The Hitchhiker's Guide to National Affairs: Canada considers alternatives to current FPTP voting systemUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054910627465846465.post-41389534424570643782016-03-01T23:58:22.577-08:002016-03-01T23:58:22.577-08:00While Canada is looking to switch its voting syste...While Canada is looking to switch its voting system to improve voter turnout, I do not think that it is time for the US to switch voting systems as well. I believe that it is a generally easy process for voters to vote if they desired to now in the US. If the voting system were to change, people who do not want to vote or are uninterested in voting will still not vote unless required to. I do think that voting systems should be neutral concerning parties. It would be unfair for one party to have a natural advantage over another party and there could be nothing done about it. I would minimize the votes of the minority, thus the democracy would not be fair.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054910627465846465.post-37368962802375377642016-02-28T17:27:30.200-08:002016-02-28T17:27:30.200-08:00I think that Canada should switch to the Single Tr...I think that Canada should switch to the Single Transferable Vote as mentioned in the fourth source Sameer listed. I personally like STV because it allows for both proportional voting and local representation in order to maximize the satisfaction of the voters. However, it is a fair criticism that STV is immensely more complicated than FTPT and would require transparency in the calculations over who would win each seat, but overall it is a much better choice than FPTP.<br /><br />I think that the United States could switch to STV for the election of its representatives. Because STV requires multiple winning candidates per region, districts would need to combine for the voting system to work properly, but I think that it will be worth the change to have more representative representatives. Unfortunately, it would likely require some kind of Constitutional amendment to successfully introduce the STV system, so it is unlikely to happen.<br /><br />I do not think that it is necessarily bad if voting systems favor certain parties. For most of the systems, it favors parties that have a larger proportional number of votes than seats, in which case changing makes everything more fair for those smaller parties. The biggest requirement for a voting system in my opinion is that its results accurately reflect what the voters want.<br /><br />If anybody wants to see more about the single transferable vote, I highly recommend <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI" rel="nofollow">this video</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com