@theguardian.com editorial: "the Westminster voting system needs to catch up". @makevotesmatter.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ben McKenzie is right: America increasingly feels “winner-take-all.” Power & wealth concentrate at the top, while most feel ignored & left behind. One part of the problem? Winner-take-all elections. The solution: Proportional representation. Deb Otis explains. Stitch ➡️ @samisagesays.bsky.social

"RCV means that Mainers need not compromise any of these values. It makes better elections possible—and a stronger democracy. As we head into an especially busy and crowded primary season, that’s something worth celebrating."

This follows on from an intervention earlier this year from more than 20 business leaders, calling for Westminster to scrap the failing First Past the Post voting system after the political chaos it has contributed to in recent years. electoral-reform.org.uk/business-lea...

When votes don’t match seats, trust in politics suffers. England’s past local elections show First Past the Post can exaggerate winners, erase opposition voices and leave communities poorly represented. buff.ly/VBVDL9m

📉 Fragmentation means plummeting mandates - with councillors elected on just 15% of the vote ⚠️ “first past the post is not designed for fragmented competition between five strong parties” - Professor @robfordmancs.bsky.social @alicjahagopian.bsky.social @news.sky.com news.sky.com/story/local-...

A former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee, Sushil Wadhwani, has made the case for why proportional representation would be good for the economy. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

📊 “The two-party system is under much greater strain than it ever has been” - Vernon Bogdanor 🚨 “We do risk having an election next time round that is simply indefensible” @alanrenwick.bsky.social @pickardje.bsky.social and @rachel-rees.bsky.social at @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/6d97...

⚠️ Last year, only 16% of councillors were elected with majority support. One councillor won with just 18.9% of the vote. This trend is not going anywhere - and tomorrow will prove it. First Past the Post has had its day. It's time for change.

💥Growing numbers of experts warn political fragmentation is breaking First-Past-the-Post ahead of the Local Elections “British politics looks more fundamentally different than it has done at any time in postwar history” Sir John Curtice @thechrismasontv.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not to beat a dead horse but if the USA had a form of proportional representation Never Trumpers could recover a centrist right wing party to vote for. MAGA would be a rump party, as would the far left movement. Look at MMP as an option.

@raskin.house.gov has the right response. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Not American here but the uneven representation seems a major problem. I lived in NZ when they brought in PR. This article suggests it could be a powerful countermeasure. bsky.app/profile/leed...

Imagine how proportional representation could democratize our Canadian political system, where each of our votes would actually have a determining factor in electing people, parties & policies that most represent Canadian population. Democracies clinging to FPP are autocracies.

America will get proportional representation one day. And sometime far in the future, we will look back and think: why did it take us so long? Now let’s go make that history happen, sooner rather than never. leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

Congressional Dems passing the gerrymandering ban they backed in 2021 would be a huge improvement over the status quo, but there’s only one way to ensure fair maps: Require statewide proportional representation. Longer term, amend the constitution to add some national PR seats to balance that out

We need to replace districting with proportional representation. Kick gerrymandering to the curb forever.

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Proportional Representation! The Gerrymanding Wars make it clear that single-member districts don't work Now that the GOP realizes that they can't win via Gerrymanding, PR is the peace settlement Conservatives accepted PR in Europe when they realized worse for them was in the offing

A Democratic president with simple majorities in Congress could enact proportional representation for the House—no amendments required. 50%+1 could end the filibuster, expand SCOTUS, expand the House, and enact PR by state. And add new states like D.C. to rebalance the Senate while they’re at it

"So in one stroke, PR could do a better job fighting racial vote dilution than Section 2 ever did, and do so without triggering equal protection objections." electionlawblog.org?p=155758

Reform the Court doesn’t go far enough. Reform Congress for proportional representation. Reform the Presidency to get a popular election. Use this moment to dream big.

The two party system is incompatible with multiracial democracy. It will be nearly impossible to end gerrymandering using single member districts. If you want to end gerrymandering, we must use a form of proportional representation that allows for multiple winner—and hence more parties.

Democracy Dies In Unilateral Disarmament The answer is getting ride of single-member districts entirely & adopting proportional representation with multi-member districts. The only good thing about this VRA nonsense is that it raises awareness that there is only one eventual solution:

Proportional representation requires zero consideration of race and produces better minority representation, both partisan minorities and racial minorities, than any attempt to draw majority-minority districts ever could.

If U.S. electoral politics is going to survive the high court’s attack on equal rights, the game will have to change. trib.al/t6OKXAg A future Democratic Congress and president must abolish the House’s system of single-member districts and elect members by proportional representation instead.

"If we want real competition for power and parties that do a better job representing our interests while also being more responsive to voters (since competitive elections increase accountability), then we need PR (proportional representation). Full stop."

That bill is the Fair Representation Act. It should absolutely be a top priority. It would make gerrymandering impossible by doing multi-winner districts via proportional ranked choice voting. fairvote.org/our-reforms/...

The answer is proportional representation. Proportional representation enables equal representation to minority voters as a structural feature, not as a litigated favor any future court can take away.

It's time for proportional representation (I know it's unlikely, but there's no gerrymandering and no wasted votes)

The simplest long-run solution to the gerrymandering wars is a federal law expanding the House and electing members by proportional representation. Alabama has more Democratic voters than Hawaii. Massachusetts has more Trump voters than Mississippi. None of these voters deserve to go unrepresented.

Very early days and much more detail needed but this is eye-catching. Especially the mention of electoral reform. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Obligatory caveat that proportional representation is the real solution, but I've become increasingly convinced any federal anti-gerrymandering law has to be process-based to force bipartisan approval (e.g. well-designed independent commissions) rather than codifying particular districting criteria.

Proportional representation is the way forward.

The solution to gerrymandering is proportional representation. Pass it on!

34% of Alabama voters are Democrats, and they’re about to have no representation in Congress. It’s time to start making an equal protection argument for proportional representation.

"Whatever else happens, one thing is certain: electoral politics is about to get messier, again. In England we will witness unprecedented uncertainty as the first-past-the-post system buckles under the strain of party competition." @robfordmancs.bsky.social writes 👇

In just over one month, Mainers will go to the polls to nominate their parties' candidates for governor and other offices. In a packed Democratic gubernatorial race, RCV is changing the electoral landscape by cultivating a culture of respect and prompting candidates to find common ground.

26 of the 27 EU member states use proportional systems, as well as the EU Parliament. If Mark Carney believes this is where the international order will be rebuilt, let's join them and embrace the same democratic standard.

We are today taking the message of Fair Votes to Penketh in West Warrington. #ProportionalRepresentation

Holyrood isn’t perfect - but it shows there is a better alternative to First Past the Post. More representative elections mean more voters see themselves reflected in parliament. electoral-reform.org.uk/how-scotland...

news.sky.com/share/13538922 Yes, @skynewsrss.bsky.social 🚫15% to win🚫 "This could potentially be the most fragmented local elections in recent history" "We've not really got a 2-party system now at all - and that's what First Past the Post was designed for" So: @makevotesmatter.bsky.social !!

Interesting 🤔: #getPRdone Andy Burnham has plan to return to Westminster ‘within weeks’ Allies said he planned to outline a “radical rewiring” of the state in the coming weeks – including sweeping changes to the electoral system and a 10 year growth plan www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Washington DC's first RCV election is fast approaching, and candidates and voters are getting ready to take full advantage! Voters are deciding how to rank their ballots, and candidates are building their winning coalitions.

Whether you agree or not, proportional representation would add a vital check on these powers. It would require a broad consensus for their use, rather than allowing any Prime Minister with a seat majority, but not a popular majority, to exercise them unilaterally.

Following successful RCV elections in both counties and cities, the Virginia legislature passed a bill to expand and make permanent the state's RCV local option. Let's make MN next to give our local jurisdictions more choices!

Under first-past-the-post, transparency is an honour system that politicians without majority support can wave away when inconvenient. Proportional representation ensures FOI changes require genuine majority consensus, not something Premiers can rip up whenever they choose.

🎥 NEW INTERVIEW 🎥 "We can't combat climate breakdown without a more effective democracy." @georgemonbiot.bsky.social spoke to Young MVM volunteer Hugo Harvey about how our dysfunctional voting system leads to a toxic political culture and undermines climate action. Watch here 👇

America will get proportional representation one day. And sometime far in the future, we will look back and think: why did it take us so long? Now let’s go make that history happen, sooner rather than never. leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-suprem...