Comments on: If at first you don’t secede… http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2008/07/24/if-at-first-you-dont-secede/ Informed Amateurs Blog the American Civil War Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:41:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: JZ Temple http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2008/07/24/if-at-first-you-dont-secede/comment-page-1/#comment-974 JZ Temple Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:03:07 +0000 http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/?p=1377#comment-974 I suspect that the issue of the two party system being broken has popped up every once and awhile in the zeitgeist since the very beginning. It's a citizen's right, very happily exercised, to complain about how the whole political system is broken. Interestingly, there are options. One is the Single Transferable Vote (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Transferable_Vote) which is currently used in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Malta, plus a few other places. It does provide a much better opportunity for 3rd (and 4th and 5th...) party candidates to be elected. Sadly I suspect the math in the associated explanation will scare off the vast majority of the voting public. I suspect that the issue of the two party system being broken has popped up every once and awhile in the zeitgeist since the very beginning. It’s a citizen’s right, very happily exercised, to complain about how the whole political system is broken.

Interestingly, there are options. One is the Single Transferable Vote (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Transferable_Vote) which is currently used in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Malta, plus a few other places. It does provide a much better opportunity for 3rd (and 4th and 5th…) party candidates to be elected. Sadly I suspect the math in the associated explanation will scare off the vast majority of the voting public.

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