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Sunday, 3 March 2013
First past the post is popular representation
Democracy is inherently proportional... each vote counts equally. Which is why it is inconsistent and disturbing when the entirety of the power is given to the sole winning candidate. This type of winner-takes-all electoral process (also called first-past-the-post) is not a true kind of democracy because all of the power is given to just a single candidate despite how people have voted. To have true democracy we must have proportional elections. Proportional representation is properly named democratic representation and first-past-the-post is more accurately named popular representation. Democratic representation is better than popular representation because we do not want to give all of the power to the single sinning candidate... to do so would be to risk giving undue power to someone who does not truly represent the people.
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