But since I'm on this topic already, the first major problem with our election system is the 50%+1 requirement to win. This inherently favors a two party system which is really bad because that means there are only two options to choose from, often they being "fuck you" and "fuuuuuuuck youuuuu".
The second major problem is that elections are treated like a sport. You vote for your team, damned be the world. Doesn't matter if nuclear war starts, as long as your party wins.
The third problem is only a problem because of the second, and this is the electoral college. Since there are so many idiots voting blindly, they push out the weight of rational votes and in a winner-takes-all system like the electoral college system does, it turns states into a win-lose scenario as opposed to a direct democracy where every voice has the same weight.
The electoral college would work properly if the 17th Amendment hadn't f'ed up the entire system. The founders did not want directly elected senators so they would be more responsive to their state/constituency. Some states went years without representation in Congress so they got pissed when they couldn't get their sh-t together. Now they get elected for 6 years and say f u until the next time they're up for re-election.
The second major problem is that elections are treated like a sport. You vote for your team, damned be the world. Doesn't matter if nuclear war starts, as long as your party wins.
The third problem is only a problem because of the second, and this is the electoral college. Since there are so many idiots voting blindly, they push out the weight of rational votes and in a winner-takes-all system like the electoral college system does, it turns states into a win-lose scenario as opposed to a direct democracy where every voice has the same weight.