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On November 06 2010 11:30 Fraser wrote: Show nested quote + On November 05 2010 22:26 CyanidePink wrote:   On November 05 2010 22:06 Surprise wrote: Democracy should be more than the right to choose between two similar parties. actually it's a problem with the vote counting method used (first past the post). Only UK, USA and Canada uses it, and they all have 2 majority parties that battle every election. The rest of the world uses proportional representation and has vibrant democracies with many parties. Case in point: New Zealand switched from FPP to PR, and overnight the 2 main parties broke down into a bunch of smaller ones. Of course it's very hard to switch from FPP to PR since the main parties fight it with incredible inertia as it affects them badly. Favours 2 large parties: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_past_the_post Favours many small parties: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation Holy shit that article on proportional representation is poorly written.

If anyone is interested, I think this article explains it alot better http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/reform.html

also these links
http://www.fairvote.ca/en/about_fairvoting