[fvc-wat-disc] Guardian

[Jennifer Ross]

That was great!  I especially enjoy how it is FPTP that is the scary
electoral system now.

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On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 8:20 AM Ellen Papenburg <sagittaep at gmail.com> wrote:

> I enjoyed that article.  Thanks Mary!
>
> Ellen
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> (via my android phone,  typos may occur)
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> On Sun, Jun 9, 2019, 05:09 Mary Jackes, <mkj at bell.net> wrote:
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>> "One of the few other European states to have FPTP is that other
>> celebrated bastion of democracy, Belarus."
>>
>> lots of comments on this article.  I haven't read them all, by any means,
>> but I especially liked this comment.  However, although it was easy to
>> establish that Belarus is really *way* behind in the democracy stakes,
>> it seems that it has a two round system.  It's really hard to be
>> knowledgeable enough to get involved in conversations.
>> On 6/9/2019 8:45 AM, Mary Jackes wrote:
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>> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/09/our-archaic-first-past-post-system-alarmingly-unfit-multi-party-age
>>
>> Mary
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