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Originally Posted by GGG
In a PR scenario though you increase the value of a third party vote so more people will do it. Some voters try to avoid vote splitting in contested ridings. So I’d suspect that in a PR system where there isn’t a penalty for voting for fringe candidates you’d see large shifts in the Cons to the PPC.
You can see the far right success in any European country, there is no reason to believe that wouldn’t occur here. There are enough white nationalists to have a white nationalist party.
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it will also reduce the number of people who throw their vote away because voting in the riding is meaningless. I've done that a few times voting in Alberta. Although the last two elections i voted in polling suggested I would be in a tighter riding than ended up happening.