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[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 61 points 8 months ago

*raises hand*

If we aren't American, may we be excused?

[-] Toes@ani.social 16 points 8 months ago

Only if you can tell the class how your country's election process works

[-] dont_lemmee_down@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago

It's quite weird actually: You vote for a party and a local candidate. The local candidate get's into parlament directly while the rest of parlament is filled proportionally to the general cast vote if they manage to get over 5% of the votes (this does not apply to direct winning candidates or recognized minority representing parties). With parliament resizing to accomodate for at least your direct candidates to represent your percentage. Which always made me wonder, if everyone votes for just Party A's direct candidates, but they get 0% of the general vote, would all other parties then have to get infinite extra positions? That would result in an infinitely big parliament, which basically means every citizen is now in parliament, and kinda get's around the fight over universal basic income, right?

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