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.
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.