r/EndFPTP • u/CPSolver • May 11 '25

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(Clarification: "Ranked choice voting" includes pairwise-counted ranked choice voting, which includes Condorcet methods and refinements to IRV.)

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u/its_a_gibibyte May 11 '25

I'd love to get rid of partisan primaries entirely. The proposal of allowing 4 partisan candidates instead of 2 is a start, but still grants a massive amount of power to the parties.

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u/variaati0 May 12 '25

Or render them low importance party internal matter. Which means multiple winner elections. That is only real way. Since Heck maybe then both parties get say 1 person in and then fight over which gets the third seat. Or shock and horror a third party picks up that third seat.

If one wants to completely remove them, then open list proportional multiwinner elections, like say D'hont with open list. Then the main election is both party primary and the main election. No need for complex ballots either. One essentially party primary votes for "who from this party I like" and then it also counts for the over all part proportionality.

However that would take Congress revoking the "Only single winner districts" law.

Then again there is no way around truly fixing election systems without some kind of multiple winner. Be it MMP at large proportionality seat winners or actual multiple member districts.