• beebarfbadger@lemmy.world
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        25 days ago

        What’s your plan for getting a functional better system ready within two weeks? Because if you have an actually feasible suggestion, I nominate you for president.

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          25 days ago

          Complain about it and get them to put it on their docket. Same as every other issue we care about.

        • hglman@lemmy.ml
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          25 days ago

          The only way to have entrenched political parties adapt election laws is to vote for alternatives. Only at election time can the topic of election reform be addressed.

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            24 days ago

            Ad 1) this voting system is fixed to keep the two entrenched parties in power. It is tailor-made to funnel power to the two behemoths so that they can amass power to a degree where other players overtaking them is… unlikely under regular circumstances. But apart from that, addressing the issue of the voting system and it being fixed are two different things, and just like one would not do car maintenance while the car is speeding along a highway, restructuring the voting process is not something that will feasibly be done two weeks before election day when certain states are already in the middle of voting.