29 Elections

We talk about elections: Voting rights, popular vote, jungle primaries, and more Intro The feedback form is at htotw.com/contact Leave us voice message at +1 (208) 996-8667 or htotw.com/speakpipe Support the show on a monthly basis with Patreon or just once with PayPal, credit or debit card, Apple Pay, or Google Pay links are at htotw.com/donate Subscribe at htotw.com/subscribe Join our Discord server at htotw.com/discord The United States has what’s effectively a beta version of Democracy with a fair number of bug fixes. While other countries, especially New Zealand have moved on to Democracy 4.0. New Zealand system: - You vote for party, not person. Each party has candidate lists - Each district is has more than one person in parliament - It’s ranked choice voting - Everyone who wins a seat, gets their seats - Parties who don’t win enough seats to be represented get extra seats Voting Rights Presidential elections - Electoral College - National Popular Votes Interstate Compact Jungle Primaries - Open Primaries - Top 2 - Top 4 with Ranked Choice Sources: https://ballotpedia.org/Top-two_primary https://openprimariesid.org/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact https://www.axios.com/2023/09/26/supreme-court-alabama-gop-congressional-map his episode is brought to you by: - JS - Danielle - Henry K - Darryl G - Erica B - Sally R - Chuck R - Pat Acks from the [Humanists of Idaho](https://www.humanistsofidaho.org/) - Arthur K - Big Easy Blasphemy - Nathan P - Sam E - Samuel C - Steven - Balázs And by our other patrons and those who want no reward. --- Contact information, show notes, and links to Social Media and the like can be found at [https://htotw.com](https://htotw.com) The music in this episode is: Welcome to the Show by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4614-welcome-to-the-show License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license NewsSting by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4124-newssting License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Ditty Pong by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4676-ditty-pong License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Disco Sting by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3653-disco-sting License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Sweeter Vermouth by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4450-sweeter-vermouth License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license --- Full shownotes can always be found at https://htotw.com/29 Support the show