Nicușor Dan is the new president of Romania. Congratulations to everyone who voted!

@europe

    • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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      9 days ago

      I mean, it is a two-round system.

      First time is voting for your favorite.

      Second round is voting against the worse of the two.

      The US needs this, like get rid of party primaries and have a blanket non-partisan parimary where you vote for whoever. Bernie, AOC, etc.

      Or better yet: ranked-choice.

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        8 days ago

        Well said. It’s a band aid for first-past-the-post voting. Ranked voting already includes multiple rounds, while only doing the physical voting once.

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          8 days ago

          If the voters are well informed about how their ranked-choice ballot works, then its the most ideal.

          Otherwise, you could end up with idiots voting for their favorite, but not filling out the 2nd, 3rd, 4th choices, which ends up wasting a vote if their favorite gets eliminated. Of course, that would be a worse case scenario, I hope the average person is functional enough to know how to do a simple task like filling out a ballot, but honestly, the average person is so stupid (or just lazy) that I don’t have such high hopes.

          If the most important goal is just to elminate the spoiler effect of FPTP, using a 2 round system is the more “idiot-proof” method to do so, in my opinion. I mean, the first round is effectively just a primary election that has been practiced for a long time, just without parties this time.

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      8 days ago

      If it’s truly just a lesser evil, as opposed to “good”, then voters will be disillusioned and the next election will result in fascism. Liberals failing to do good is the sole reason fascism is escalating worldwide.

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          1 day ago

          It’s not what I meant. I’m not criticizing people for voting liberal on that one – I’m criticizing, on one hand, the lax attitude people have towards fascism before elections happen, and the unwillingness of both the prosecutors and leaders to do anything about fascism.

          The attitude of the latter is why the former is so lax about fascism (imo), and they should be pressured to take actual action against fascism, as well as actually addressing popular issues. Because simple posturing is how thing don’t get better for the average voter, and why that average voter might end up thinking fascism might be the actual solution