On Alternative Election Models

[lyeman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0I-sdoSXU

This seems to me to be the best way to hold elections for Senates, Parliaments, Diets, etc. The only real problem with this that I can see is that it leaves the selection of the "alternative" parties up to internal party politics and not to any well-defined process, but that could be solved by requiring parties to have well-defined constitutions. The Democratic Party charter basically says they're here to help the poor, which doesn't count as a designation of process. And the Republican Party doesn't even really have a charter. So requiring parties to have "constitutions" to put people up for election would be a pretty big innovation.

[The Skeletal Atheist]

...Zarus?

[the_antithesis]

...Zarus?

Who?

I assume that's a previously banned user.

Possibly. There is a familiar whiff in this bullshit. Half-assed political shit from a half-wit.

Frankly, that kind of shit is as common as pebbles.

[Desdinova]

Wait a minute....They have candy corn flavored pebbles?

[the_antithesis]

....

Yes.

[Desdinova]

Maybe there is a god.

[SGOS]

It ain't going to happen in the US.  Nor are any campaign reforms.

[lyeman]

Yeah, the only thing that could force them to change the way elections work would be popular revolt, and most people are married to the two parties.