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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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Like I said, they would need 900,000 votes just to cross the 5% threshold earning PR seat(s). If a fringe white nationalist party is able to organize enough to do that... well, that would be a massive surprise.
On the plus side, if the right fractured their vote as much as the left, that would result in a more balanced democracy.