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@infobeautiful how can such a corrupt, anti-citizen country call itself a democracy, and "the best one" at that?!

@infobeautiful The Arrow's theorem should be enough for any claim of democracy, but the Rube Goldberg machine of American elections is unique.
Maybe it's because I'm on the other side of the pond, but I would call non-democratic (and I mean no offense) a system that doesn't give to my neighbor's vote the same weight of mine - and they can be bad neighbors too.
Anybody's studied in school the math of averages and weighted averages? Same concept.

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In #Italia è ancora più grottesco:

- Si creano tante circoscrizioni (Disctrics) e in ognuna si mettono listini bloccati con candidati scelti ESCLUSIVAMENTE dal partito, in base alle strategie illustrate nelle immagini
- Si crea un premio di maggioranza abnorme per le coalizioni
- Si fa in modo che una buona parte dei blue SCHIFATI dalla politica non vadano manco a votare ritenendolo ininfluente

E vincono i RED, pure con solo 12% di voti degli aventi diritto

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Und deshalb sind did kommenden Midterm Wahlen obsolet. https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116517824332405474

@infobeautiful I seriously can't, for the life of me, understand why people weren't absolutely screaming about this since it first started and every single day since. It's the least subtle, most undemocratic thing I've seen in our system and that's really saying something because our system pretty much is just openly anti-democratic and anti-voters rights in So. Very. Many. Ways...

Even the electoral college seems less anti-democratic and more legal than gerrymandering.

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And if it were a democratic election it would be 3 blue and two red.

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In other words, the district system is bound to be manipulated…

The always relevant video from the Map Men on gerrymandering: youtube.com/watch?v=cwBslntC3x…

@infobeautiful Elect the oppressed, the unwilling, the underpaid and the homeless.

Not those who already have privilege, and desire more of it.

And stop paying the media to run political ads. That's the taxpayers' airwaves, that's our time. They have only the business models that we allow.

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Works only in first-pass-the-post systems.

@infobeautiful laughs in proportional representation...the UK and US are at best stuck in the 19th century. Sorry, but you can discuss how maps are drawn for your 2 choices it remains by all means a retarded electoral system. Danes have more than 10 parties for about 6 million people, but over 300 million US citizens have to do with two shades and "Citizens United" in the blender? Seriously, how you don't feel mocked as a voter there is beyond me...

@infobeautiful Well, for once, noone did anything to prevent it in the first place. Neither the Reps nor the Dems. And every side had plenty of time to do so, to make it balanced for both sides and foolproof.
Everyone talked about it but nothing changed.

So if you want to blame someone for it: blame both sides.

@infobeautiful It would be too simplistic, of course, to simply count all the votes and add them up?

@infobeautiful I wonder why people are not pushing hard against districts?

I say that, but here I'm trying to find people to improve our voting system which also incentives polization and everyone I find is either "yeah, we are trying to push [insert worse idea here]" or "that's hopeless".