The plurality voting system is a single-winner voting system often used to elect executive officers or to elect members of a legislative assembly which is based on single-member constituencies.
Historically, FPTP (first-past-the-post) has been a contentious electoral system, giving rise to the concept of electoral reform and a multiplicity of different voting systems intended to address perceived weaknesses of plurality voting.
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If voting changed anything, they’d abolish it. – Ken Livingstone
How true!
Emma Goldman gets the credit for the original quote, “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”
We can, however, make voting more fair.