do you mean like party voting?

So at this time in the English speaking world representatives are elected to represent a certain region even in national elections

Those seats are allocated to smaller regional electorates which your votes go to and the majority winner of that region gets representation

making for rather safe and moderate voting

albeit, stagnant

Not necessarily and it means that large portions of the populations vote are disregarded. Everyone’s vote who wasn’t the majority in their region goes nowhere

wait.. wtf?

you guys have to vote?

Yes. You pay a fine if you don’t

holy shit

Or you have to justify why you weren’t able to vote.

I think that’s valid

**FUCK IT** ***MAKE THE HOUSE LIKE JURY DUTY***

problem solved

@CronoSaturn i didnt even think that was possible tbh

How so? You’re on the electoral roll, they have to check who you are when you vote and while they do that they record you voted

If you havnt registered a postal vote and you havnt voted in person at the end of the election they send you a fine

i guess i just thought that was a no no, like none secret ballots

The ballot is secret

just an example

So if you donkey vote or scribble in a vote for hitler or whatever then you can’t be fined

lul

You do actually have to go to the voting booth though

ok sorry, i sorta derailed

i just saw that and about did a triple front flip

It seems to be something Americans and Australians have very different views on. Voting is seen a civic duty here and your part in contributing to the electoral process of the nation just as taxes are your contribution to the nations fiscal processes

do you understand why i want the house to be working class people? i want to put people in a position where they are fully engrossed in politics in person, with a well informed opinion, and for these people to see literally every law that gets passed. my state just made like 1700 laws **apparently** in 17 days (facebook, im looking it up now)

i cant find anything... eh, who needs sources right 🤷

I get it, I share the concern of opening up involvement from both directions as the political “elites” are struggling to understand what exactly people want and people are finding politics increasingly difficult to follow effectively

and then a corporation strolls in with money

or worse, the congressmen owns said corporation

Money isn’t even the big factor, it’s the fact that corporations can actually have staff dedicated to a particular interest and really generate a plan around that

You gotta remember that politicians don’t have a large staff compared to the people they represent and that the jobs really broad and insecure

***money isnt a problem*** This is america

Understood, but all the data suggests corruption really isn’t a huge issue in America

The money comes down to having a staff be able to crank out policy year on year

Politicians can’t do that, especially for the range of issues they seek to confront so when a lobbyist walks in as a man with a plan he’s fucking Jesus Christ

huh, really? not what i have seen, but then again, im still young and inexperienced

(not sarcasm)

lul

ya, getting them more supporting staff is now on the agenda *writes down in notebook*