i should say though, ours says people but also the party they're running with

and most people understand it as voting for a party

So really, I'm not even criticizing either of your systems

I'm criticing the ones where your vote is for an impersonal party

are the EU elections actually like that tho

like didn't the UKIP EUMEPs defect to brexit party

In the eu elections we vote for the person

over here we have vote and the personvote

Broo posted his ballot for something and it was just parties

Thats britain

Britain isnt a democracy

Netherlands is a democracy

to choose which party gets a seat, and who we want to have a seat either in our lcoal region or in the parliment

See the difference

I'm running to get a seat in my local communehouse next year 👌

@MountainMan see that sentence right there "which party gets a seat"

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Parties don't get seats, people get seats

thats why we also have person vote 👌

problem is that not many people care much about the personvote. people care about the parties more.

But what do you mean by "a party gets a seat"?

so in parliment there are seats, and the percent of vote for a party gets a percent of the seats.

but there are many seats, and we can choose the people who get a seat from each party.

in the local commune system its basically the same, but you dont really need to be a part of a party.

that's kinda cool

but it of course helps being a part of a party if youre running to get a seat in the commune

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Okay, explain this "percentage" thing again

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may as well just link the wikipedia at this point 😅

@Fitzydog Lets say the Swedish democrats gets 20% of the vote, ok? Then they get 20% of the 349 seats.

Ahh

Democracy

yes

based

sweden is small enough that it works

I can see the problem in places like USA however

That's why I'm differentiating parties between our two systems

yes haha I'm just trying to understand how the american system works

There's 50 different republican psrtjes