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S. Nasser, Instr. PO 210 UNIT 6 DISCUSSION 1. How would US politics be different if we adopted a proportional representation voting system like Germany, New Zealand (found in the textbook) or Ireland (found in the Radiolab episode)? 2. How would the pattern of representation change in US politics and what change might we expect in political culture as a result? Honestly I believe that changing our now voting system to a proportional voting system would be much better. Because the way we vote now (pardon my French) really sucks. With things like the popular vote that don't seem to count unlike the electoral vote, which I think messes things up. For as long as I can remember it seems like when we had the chance to put the better person in the White House with the popular vote they seem to lose with it matters and the electoral vote. Even though we vote it don't seem as if our vote counts. Like I mentioned above the national popular vote does not decide who will be in the White House, the presidency is decided by the Electoral College. Which is an outdated convoluted system that sometimes yields results contrary to the major of American voters. With using proportional representation voting system every vote does really matter. This way of voting has already been implemented in some cities and states, but not used when voting federally or for a president. It is written in our Constitution to vote the way we do, but that's one of the greatest things about our Constitution we can amend it. It may be a process but in the end well worth it. Being that we are a very large country with so many citizens it may take a little longer to count to the votes. But strictly sticking to paper ballots will help ensure our voting system doesn't get hacked like in the 2016 elections. Yes using proportional representation voting system would change the way we pick who is in what office. I don't see that as a bad thing. When it comes down to it we have to vote for either a Republican or a Democratic candidate. But changing our voting system would change our choices in who we vote for. If there is an independent or 2 democratic candidates we like rather than the republican (like when Ross Perot or when Hilary and Biden ran) our vote would actually count towards who we really wanted in office.

And if our first choice doesn't have enough votes then our second choice then gets our vote, and so on so fourth. Changing the way we vote we actually could put a women in the White House. Men have ran our country over 2 centuries and like what good that has done us. Why not try someone different besides middle aged or older white men (Obama being the exception). Dickovick, J. T., & Eastwood, J. (2018). Comparative Politics: Integrating Theories, Methods, and Cases (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press Academic US. https://mbsdirect.vitalsource.com/books/9780190086305 Links to an external site. Radiolab episode 'Tweak the Vote'

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