The US's democracy is gravely ill, but the experts don't agree on how best to cure her. Some emphasize campaign finance reform, while others see the intrinsic difficulty in trusting the foxes to guard the hen house. This may lead to a focus on electoral reform with an intent either to move us to a multi-party system or to make our two-party dominated system more balanced and dynamic.
But, unfortunately, among electoral reformers there are sometimes very unfriendly "debates" over which election rules to push for. In my opinion, what matters are two things: 1) Most importantly we should have more multi-seated elections in our political system to reduce the rivalry between our two major parties and to commit us to doing a better job in the protection of the rights of our minorities. 2) Secondarily, we need to diversify the sorts of options we give voters in single-seated elections.
Towards this latter goal, I'd like to proffer a hybrid between the two biggest contenders against our prevalent first-past-the-post election rule.
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