There REALLY is an enormous amount of work, really good work, to be done if people want change: local and state races are barely contested.
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In a "winner takes the very powerful executive, loser gets nothing, nada" system, you can't use "parliamentary voting" strategies.
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From Tea Party to Sanders etc. primary challenges, to Koch brothers funding a billion $ on local/state races, tactical path is pretty clear.
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You may not care. Meanwhile, I worry about the safety of a little refugee girl I taught how to bike yesterday. Trump calls them "snakes".
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Nahum Shalman
I'm down. This requires a constitutional amendment. 2/3 in House & Senate, 2/3 of state legislatures. Start there.https://twitter.com/nahumshalman/status/762684133747326976 …
zeynep tufekci added,
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I think this would just require a federal law. I thought the Constitution didn't say anything specific about how citizens vote
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Can't just pass a law. Constitution sets up the first-past-the post electoral system. You'd need to amend the constitution...
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http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/provisions.html … and you can look up the rest; Congressional system part of this too.
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According to the US Constitution, a state can appoint electors however they want to. They've just all chosen to use voting
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Let's say you changed something there (very difficult). You still have one president. It's not a parliament & prime minister.
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Replying to @zeynep
Oh sure, there's still the usual US system problems, but I think you could, e.g., pass a Federal Law to mandate RCV nationwide
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