Humanists Take on the World

We talk about elections: Voting rights, popular vote, jungle primaries, and more

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The 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
https://www.axios.com/2023/09/26/supreme-court-alabama-gop-congressional-map

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