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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Veritasium did a great presentation on the different voting systems and there really isn't a perfect one, but first past the post is definitely not even close to the "best".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Since I don’t like Veritasium, I’ll suggest the CGPGrey videos:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

He does great videos as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would assume it's the worst. The only thing it has going for it is that it's easy to understand.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It's no "throwing birdseed at your candidate of choice in order to attract the freedom eagle to them".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Veritasium didn't really give the full picture though. He was only really looking at rated based voting systems, but there are more systems out there than that.