Getting a plurality of votes cast =/= a plurality of voters
It’s how fascism has risen in the past as well. Chasing a minority of voters because they can win an election should be an alarm bell.
Every democratic system should engage a high turnout and require a majority, not just a plurality.
80% turnout should be a norm.
Personally I am in favour of mandatory voting, with the caveat that the bottom of the ballot should have a “none of the above” option. Australia gets a ~90% turnout.
Single Transferable Vote is the best election method as it avoids wasted votes in multi party democracies.
Personally I am in favour of mandatory voting, with the caveat that the bottom of the ballot should have a “none of the above” option.
If the difference was only 20% and the result of an election wasn’t determined by a metaphorical a coin flip, I would agree.
With the way it is right now, doubling the voting pool using uneducated or apathetic voters turns the entire thing into a game of exploiting psychological biases into creating uninformed votes. That also happens to already be the GOP’s specialty.
The majority of Americans didn’t vote for Trump. Such declarations mean nothing.
No, but a plurality did.
A plurality did not.
~77 milion out of 265 million - Trump
~75 million out of 265 million - Harris
~113 million out of 265 million - Nether
Getting a plurality of votes cast =/= a plurality of voters
It’s how fascism has risen in the past as well. Chasing a minority of voters because they can win an election should be an alarm bell.
Every democratic system should engage a high turnout and require a majority, not just a plurality.
80% turnout should be a norm.
Personally I am in favour of mandatory voting, with the caveat that the bottom of the ballot should have a “none of the above” option. Australia gets a ~90% turnout.
Single Transferable Vote is the best election method as it avoids wasted votes in multi party democracies.
You’re correct, a majority of people who voted voted for him, not a plurality. Way too many people, in any event!
Not even a majority of people who voted. A majority means >50%.
Trump received a plurality of voters who voted. Not a majority.
Thank you for the correction correction!
if we believe their counts
If the difference was only 20% and the result of an election wasn’t determined by a metaphorical a coin flip, I would agree.
With the way it is right now, doubling the voting pool using uneducated or apathetic voters turns the entire thing into a game of exploiting psychological biases into creating uninformed votes. That also happens to already be the GOP’s specialty.
It’s bad now, but that could make it even worse.