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Why Your Vote Doesn't Count

CGP Grey

Why Your Vote Doesn't Count

CGP Grey explains first-past-the-post voting and why it pushes elections toward two dominant parties. It is the first in his series on electoral systems.

HN's go-to explainer for why FPTP leads to a two-party system, linked in countless voting-reform and US politics threads.

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Topics

  • US politics & elections
  • Probability & game theory

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