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Make Votes Matter
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Make Votes Matter is a political pressure group based in the United Kingdom which campaigns for replacing the archaic first-past-the-post voting system with one of proportional representation for elections to the British House of Commons. The group was founded in 2015.
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This is great, but we're seeing so much pushback even in left-leaning areas for ranked-choice voting in the first place, let alone combining legislative districts.
'It's too complicated!" "It's not the right time to change election rules!" "Voters are all used to FPTP voting!" Bleh.
I'm used to the current price of my municipal utilities but just this week I got a letter detailing how they are going up in price. Funny how being 'used to' something isn't an impediment there...
Labour and Tories hate these 2 words: proportional representation.