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• nailingjello@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Text for the lazy.

  Duverger’s Law

  In political science, Duverger’s law holds that single-ballot plurality-rule elections (such as first past the post) structured within single-member districts tend to favor a two-party system.
  

  Duverger’s law is the reason why U.S. voters select one of the two leading candidates when voting tactically, even if a third-party candidate would better represent their interests. This behavior arises out to fear of vote splitting

  One consequence of Duverger’s law is that you can improve the viability of third-party candidates by changing the voting system. For example, Approval voting is more resistant to vote splitting and therefore more conducive to third-party candidates.

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  • Goretantath@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, and until we DO change the voting system, vote blue or trump gets his way.

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    • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The problem is that many people see the system ending up with "vote blue AND the fascists get their way". It ends up being totally discouraging.

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Cool, now I can really strut my stuff. Whenever someone comments “first past the post is bad” or “2-party systems suck” I can reply “Duverger’s law!”

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• tyler@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  STAR or 3-2-1 voting are both much much better options than Approval Voting. Please advocate for one of those two rather than Approval or RCV. Yes, Approval is much better than RCV, but we’re only going to get one chance to change voting systems. If it goes wrong locales will switch back and never try again.

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