29 Elections

We talk about elections: Voting rights, popular vote, jungle primaries, and more IntroThe feedback form is at htotw.com/contactLeave us voice message at +1 (208) 996-8667 or htotw.com/speakpipeSupport the show on a monthly basis with Patreon or just once with PayPal, credit or debit card, Apple Pay, or Google Pay links are at htotw.com/donateSubscribe at htotw.com/subscribeJoin our Discord server at htotw.com/discordThe United States has what’s effectively a beta version of Democracy with a fair number of bug fixes. While other countries, especially New Zealand have moved on to Democracy 4.0. New Zealand system:

- You vote for party, not person. Each party has candidate lists

- Each district is has more than one person in parliament

- It’s ranked choice voting

- Everyone who wins a seat, gets their seats

- Parties who don’t win enough seats to be represented get extra seats Voting Rights Presidential elections

- Electoral College

- National Popular Votes Interstate Compact Jungle Primaries

- Open Primaries

- Top 2

- Top 4 with Ranked Choice Sources:

https://ballotpedia.org/Top-two_primary

https://openprimariesid.org/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact

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