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		zozbot234 on Nov 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE ... "Rigs" is quite overstated. The system is quite transparent, and other countries have similar systems and yet we do not call them undemocratic. Such as the U.S., with the electoral college for presidential elections.

madhadron on Nov 1, 2019 [–]

The imbalances induced by the electoral college are orders of magnitude smaller than those of the functional constituency system.

Thank being said, I think the electoral college should go, too.

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