Rick Moen via luv-talk wrote:
Part of what makes the US arrangement complex will be familiar to both Australians and Canadians, i.e. federalism -- as will diversity among the country's states.
AFAICT US states have significantly more autonomy than our states. The mental shim I use to help understand US sociopolitical borkage is: The USA resembles the EU more closely than the USA resembles a regular nation-state. So like when Florida does something crazy and New York shakes it head and sighs, that's the equivalent of Poland[1] and Germany, not WA.au and NSW.au. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/16/conspiracy-theorists-who-have-t...
Absolutely. _And_ Oz's working IRV implementation is a blessing to the world, that should be more widely emulated. Not perfect, but a huge improvement on anything architected in 1789.
Note that Australia has revised its IRV style several times, to reduce the number of invalid & donkey votes. For example, the "or just put a 1 above the line" thing wasn't in the original design.