One thing I worry about is a contingent presidential election. That situation arises when no candidate gets a majority of electoral votes (270 of 538). Should this situation arise, Congress gets to pick the next president and vice president.
One thing I worry about is a contingent presidential election. That situation arises when no candidate gets a majority of electoral votes (270 of 538). Should this situation arise, Congress gets to pick the next president and vice president.
Nah. No meaningful change there can happen without removing fptp.
Not sure what fptp is. But a third official party would change a lot of things.
FPTP: “First Past The Post”, the system of election where the winner is simply the one candidate who receives the most votes even if it’s not a majority (for example if many candidates ran and many received a significant share of the votes). FPTP is simple to carry out, but it’s often criticized for the fact that the winning candidate can be someone whom a majority or even a large majority of the voters didn’t want. The two-party system in America usually obscures that issue in general elections because they turn into, effectively, elections with only two significant choices so the winner tends to have a majority as well as the greatest number of votes. But the problem does show up sometimes in primaries.
FPTP can be contrasted with other systems such as ranked-choice voting and proportional representation.
I listened to a podcadt on ranked choice voting. It seemed pretty good.