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Originally Posted by Slava
Well if you think that we need a change from FPTP, then someone has to step in and spend the political capital to make the change. There is no logical reason to oppose a more fair system really. Are there any good reasons for us to stick with FPTP aside from "its what we have now"?
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As CliffFletcher notes - FPTP forces candidates to play to the centre. Rep by pop pushes politics toward the extremes. Rep by Pop also eliminates the local representative.
And all of the systems (including STV) result in "wasted votes" - which, pretty much by definition, actually means "my party didn't win so my vote was wasted".
All systems have benefits, all systems have flaws. But don't sit there and preach about renewing democracy by using an anti-democratic process. That is just more of the very same cynical hypocrisy that you guys loved to bash Harper over.
And that doesn't touch things like what Smartcar notes. Mandatory voting, in particular, is an asinine idea.