And you know what? As long as you're writing your various lawmakers

[conuly]

and asking for them to a. support a national popular vote or b. join the National Interstate Popular Vote Compact, you may as well ask them to support approval voting at the same time. I would have liked to have been able to vote for Hilary and Bernie. I know there are probably better voting systems out there, but all of them have the issue of being a tougher learning curve for people used to the current system. Anyway, as long as we're trying for a long shot, might as well try for two long shots at once.

Edit: Three long shots. We also all want an independent commission to make districts, rather than the endless rounds of gerrymandering we're currently subject to.

Got that? National popular vote. Approval voting*. Independent commission for districting.

* Or ranked voting, or whatever voting method you favor, but I'm so over "oh noes third party voters!!!!"

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[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

And don't forget Vote By Mail (http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/all-mail-elections.aspx) and Overturn Citizens United (http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/11/01/citizens-united-ranked-choice-voting-democracy-ballot-2016)!

[conuly]

Yes.

[thornleaf.livejournal.com]

Many Canadians have been attempting to get our own, equally awful voting system replaced with something that is actually representative (my personal fave is ranked ballots). Trudeau campaigned with electoral change in his platform, but of course since he won, he's changed his mind.

I would have thought that the Conservatives, who might actually have benefited from some kind of electoral reform this time, would be on him to keep his promise, but no, they're still against it. Then again, Conservatives doing something that flies in the face of logic and reason should never surprise me...

Anyway. Good luck down there. You, and my other American friends, have been on my mind a lot the last little while.