{"id":1089,"date":"2014-10-25T13:52:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T19:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2020-10-29T22:48:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T04:48:46","slug":"1089","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"Better voting than \"Winner Takes All\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's time for national elections in the US, and many citizens feel like they can't get good representation, no matter how they vote.\u00a0 Much of the problem is our \"Winner Take All\" system of voting &#8212; it's easy to explain but has *<strong>huge<\/strong>* flaws.\u00a0 Here is a series of 5 videos (total 28 minutes) that talks about the problems, and some much better (but slightly more complicated) alternatives.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Minority Rule: First Past the Post Voting\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s7tWHJfhiyo?list=PLZnDtzCyPRadtivuD9Z1Fhu92m3mRKnbq\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It's time for national elections in the US, and many citizens feel like they can't get good representation, no matter how they vote.\u00a0 Much of the problem is our \"Winner Take All\" system of voting &#8212; it's easy to explain but has *huge* flaws.\u00a0 Here <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=1089\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-politics","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}