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This Week's Game


Last, First Past the Post


The First-Past-The-post (FPTP) voting method ensures that the two-party system stays in power because it almost assures no serious third-party candidates can get elected. It keeps all that campaign money flowing through reliable, well-greased channels and away from third-party candidates. ONE PARROT posts that whoever gets the most votes should win even if no candidate gets a majority because we've always done it this way. THE OTHER PARROT approves of either Approval-voting (AV), Score-voting, STAR voting, or Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) to ensure that the winner has the largest approval majority and/or highest rank. Closed Primaries and FPTP discourage people from voting because they have to vote for the candidate they hate the least. PolicyKeys™ IS A REAL-LIFE ROLE-PLAYING GAME. Predict whether each Role (click) will have a majority say (click) YES or NO. Finish all eight Roles, and (click) Submit for the Editors' & POLI's Answers.


Should voting be upgraded to AV, RCV, Score, or STAR?

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Let’s get horizontal, Politics 4.0 makes strange bedfellows

Turn your phone and your perspective horizontally
Widen your views, literally and figuratively
Politics is a landscape not a self-portrait
You’ll need both your left and right thumbs
Widen your views — left and right
Let’s knock down some figurative silos
Let’s sit on the 50 yard line, not just one end zone

The First-Past-The-post (FPTP) voting method ensures that the two-party system stays in power because it almost assures no serious third-party candidates can get elected. It keeps all that campaign money flowing through reliable, well-greased channels and away from third-party candidates. ONE PARROT posts that whoever gets the most votes should win even if no candidate gets a majority because we've always done it this way. THE OTHER PARROT approves of either Approval-voting (AV), Score-voting, STAR voting, or Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) to ensure that the winner has the largest approval majority and/or highest rank. Closed Primaries and FPTP discourage people from voting because they have to vote for the candidate they hate the least. PolicyKeys™ IS A REAL-LIFE ROLE-PLAYING GAME. Predict whether each Role (click) will have a majority say (click) YES or NO. Finish all eight Roles, and (click) Submit for the Editors' & POLI's Answers.

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YES key

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    Fewer candidates we hate will win
  • 3
    Strategic voting is eliminated
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    Less chance of electing unstable outliers
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    FPTP works against independents
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    Computer tabulation becomes imperative
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    No more run-off elections
  • 13
    Government policy is easier to forecast
  • 15
    Less polarizing 51%-49% controversy
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    Easier to block unwanted candidates
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    AV & RCV, Score & STAR favors the non-rich
  • 21
    Vote for more than one candidate/party
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    More difficult to use military force
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    FPTP is a barrier to needed change
  • 27
    Platform over personality or party
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    Safe districts w/ FPTP resemble monarchies
  • 31
    FPTP is a third-party blocking tool

Majority of the Role?

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  • Sanitation
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  • Big Tech
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  • Urban Investors
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key NO

  • 2
    FPTP is the classic way to vote
  • 4
    The party's candidates get elected
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    Less chance of reformers getting elected
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    Just pay tribute to both parties
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    Any computer can be hacked
  • 12
    Stay loyal to your party, period
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    AV & RCV, Score & STAR are confusing
  • 16
    Controversy breed profits
  • 18
    Voters are confused by too many candidates
  • 20
    Status-quo favors the rich
  • 22
    Discourages voting party lines
  • 24
    Easier to use military force
  • 26
    FPTP is a barrier against unneeded change
  • 28
    Personality over platform
  • 30
    Paper ballot counting is more reliable
  • 32
    Controversy increases ad viewership
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