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@infobeautiful First-past-the-post voting is a scam.

USA & UK should change to fractional voting or keep at this stupid gerrymandering until end of time.

@infobeautiful quick manual count of border lengths: LEFT = 20, RIGHT = 33.

@infobeautiful if you had a real Democracy, in which only the popular vote counts (deimon, people), nothing of this sort of circus would be happening. But still you think of yourselves as the "greatest country in the world" having "the best democracy in the world". Look around and feel ashamed.

@infobeautiful But even with Gerrymandering it can be enough if there are enough votes for it, see Hungary last.

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

@infobeautiful "American Democracy", an oxymoron in everyday real life.

@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.