How can we get to proportional representation in America, so voting for small parties counts?

Question

In most democracies of the world it's not all black or white two sides and two parties because when they vote they get to vote their first choice, second choice, third choice and on so that if your first choice is eliminated your second choice then comes into play. Make your vote count! This way you never waste a vote when voting for minor parties that speak for your real positions. We can finally get out from under the "damned if you do damned if you don't" schizophrehnic two party system. Let's do it!!!
The best way is to start at county level with Instant Run Off Voting (IRV) and then we get used to real democracy. IRV saves county elections a lot of money (no run off eelections needed) and we know who people really want.
Then we go to city councils and vote preference voting and that way each group has a seat at the table. Diversity makes democracy work. Start up you enigines and get those petitions out in your county now.
Eventually we proportionalize the state level.

Answer 1

I like it. Both the far left and the far right run this country yet they only account for 15% of our populous. They are happy to share power. They have created a Pendulum effect knowing that power and the benefits that accompany it will eventually swing back in their favor.

The opposition to you proposal will be fierce. But I am willing and consider myself a patriot. I hope others are ready to take back the USA so that our populous eventually has true representation in Washington.

I have said in the past it must be started at a local level. Where do we get a petition to start the engine?

Answer 2

PR (proportional representation) may indeed be a good idea. However, a common
myth, which you have fallen for, is that IRV (instant runoff voting)
will be a good start toward PR. Actually, instant runoff voting
leads to 2-party domination just like now. Proof: it has done
so in every country in which it has been tried, such as
Australia (over 80 years IRV: currently 1 seat out of the 564
federal and state IRV seats is third-party occupied) and Fiji
(IRV enacted 1997-8; latest IRV election elected 2 third-party
seats out of over 70 total). And with 2-party domination, getting
PR is politically impossible since either party can and will block it
forever. (Proof: Many US cities adopted PR in the 1930s but abandoned it later thanks to abolition campaigns organized by the top-2 parties. Also by 1967 US federal law, PR is illegal
in all US federal elections.)

If you want to get PR you need a voting system that leads AWAY from 2-party domination. Top-2 runoff (NON-instant) did that
in 21-23 out of 27 countries. (Foolishly, IRV activists in the US have actually been trying to get rid of top-2 runoff and put in instant runoff, in a misguided apparent effort to destroy third parties.)
A superior single-round system with considerable evidence it
also will break 2-party domination is RANGE VOTING.
See http://rangevoting.org
and there are subpages about IRV, Australia, Fiji, Proportional
Representation, myths about IRV, etc.

Answer 3

huge style a million there isn't any such element as a wasted vote its those that do not vote is the wasted . The more beneficial that vote the more beneficial the end result will be. no matter if we vote the former way or this way it received't make any substitute. you may positioned a spin on some thing even numbers of voters and how they vote. no count what the social gathering is. this question arise at the same time as their is an election. no individual opt for to be a loser. lengthy because the numbers look sturdy.the issue isn't the vote it the end results of the vote. some free jobs ,rewarded and new proposition merely by technique of ways they vote . element do not substitute in effortless words the voters can do this by technique of voting neither to significant flow social gathering's. Their should be an area on pollfor the voters can rather vote if the social gathering's are not any further doing their jobs they could flow for not one of the ABOVE. Then shall we see what the spin medical doctors are going to assert.

Answer 4

Honestly, the left and right both have the same agenda. They just disagree about how to do it. The media, government bureaucrats, and Wall Street control this country. I doubt that the president could do anything if he wanted to. The left wants government handouts (which invariably lead to laziness and theft), American submission to communist/socialist foreign interests (they want our taxes high so that their citizens don't come to America to get away from their even more ridiculous taxes), the same ridiculously faulty education system (a very simple and quick fix is to just repeal the stupid child labor and compulsory education laws), and the creation of foreign governments that hate America (the Panama Canal is now controlled by China whom will someday be at war with us either over Taiwan or the national debt and Iran is controlled by lunatic religious extremists thanks to our tax dollars). The right wants to eliminate civil liberties (in all fairness, the left is against certain liberties themselves), subsidize church handouts, and force extremist Christianity on everybody else (which ironically is the same thing we hate the terrorists for doing in their home countries).

It's impossible to get the support of too many people because the school system is successful at the one purpose it is designed to do, impede learning and build a servile population. You can read about the school system's true purpose at;
http://mhkeehn.tripod.com/ughoae.pdf (PDF)
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm (HTML)

The best thing we can hope for is that the school system eventually creates enough apolitical technocrats and the 3rd party supporters will eventually outnumber the Mickey Mouse Parties.

Answer 5

First, you will have to get a canditate that can really energize votors, then you need to get the current representatives to switch parties, otherwise it is all a waste of time. It will take a very popular voice who can get people excited about change.

Answer 6

Do you really think thats gona fix our broken system? If so then I hope you do your best to promote this issue but dont expect alot of support from any dem/republican and dont expect alot of help from the people who dont vote either. We dont vote for a reason and its not because we dont care its because we understand what happens when you buy into the system and support it.