I would also expand the House of Representatives so that each Member of Congress represents approximately the same number of Constituents, about 30,000, as the original Congress. With 10,000 Representatives meeting electronically, that would make it much more expensive to buy elections in America and easier for challengers.

and less expensive for challengers to fund campaigns. That, in itself, would make the American electoral process more democratic. It would also make Reps more accountable to their constituents. Eventually, we should go to a modified direct democracy with voters casting votes as a referendum on major Bills.

for 1.2 million people, or 3,000 per seat, an order of magnitude less than what you're proposing. And the place is a freakin' zoo!

which is choking out our Democracy.

There's also much more party discipline in a parliamentary system.

I rather liked their system. Not perfect, but it seems to work better.

Democracy!

Wouldn't it be nice?

Our presidential system is pretty much broken.

Two different electorates means there's one legislative party and one presidential party.

And it is pretty much a foregone conclusion that there will be some form of divided government after this year's elections. There will be a lot of backroom horsetrading and dealmaking to determine who gets into government. And it could easily be that the party getting the most votes gets shut out.

Texas, Mississippi and Alabama could fraudulently increase their Republican vote by 10% and with the EC it would not make the slightest difference to the election outcome. But with a popular vote system such cheating could easily swing a close election.

which means it maximizes your individual vote. Your vote can actually count more than 1 to 1. This has good and bad consequences as a whole (see president W), but for the individual voter it is considered a plus by some voting rights advocates.

To me its congress and the state based approach to running the country that sucks. Small areas of the country and large areas of the country are haphazardly split up for no apparent reason allowing people in large area, high population states to basically get massively under represented. The Senate is totally messed up because of it. I'm sick of listening to people that represent mere fractions of society... I'm ready to blow up the Senate and the elitist approach to government it represents.

flip an election.

Literally flipping a few thousand votes in one state could flip the power structure of the world.

To flip a popular election you would likely have to flip many more times the votes.

Not that it doesn't have its problems, but it seems to work much better, and it allows for more than two parties.

Instead of first past the post. A party that gets 35% of the vote should get 35% of the seats. If no party gets to 50%, there should be a coalition. The leader of the party that gets the most votes would be prime minister. That way we get rid of these personality politics where people vote based on gut feelings, likeability and who they'd most like to have a beer with.

I'm sick to death of the current two party system which essentially locks out third parties.

"two" entities that are supposed to represent the public: the President and the Congress, specifically the House of Representatives. Both can claim to be elected by the people, and yet can be controlled by different parties, as is the case now, leading to gridlock and inaction. A parliamentary system would prevent that, and take away the ability to blame the other party for failing to govern, or for woefully bad choices.

The drafters of the Constitution chose the system we have, of checks and balances, specifically to preserve the prerogatives of the ruling elite, and to prevent the masses from actually running the government. The result is a government that is more stable than nimble.

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