An electoral system where voters rank candidates by preference instead of choosing just one. If no candidate wins a majority of first-choice votes, the last-place candidate is eliminated and their voters' second choices are redistributed — repeating until someone wins a true majority.
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Democracy only works when every citizen can participate. Gerrymandering, voter ID laws, and polling place closures are making it harder — deliberately.
Just 1.05% of Americans provided 78% of 2024 campaign contributions. Economic elites have substantial policy influence; average citizens have near-zero. Money out. People in.
The practice of drawing electoral district boundaries to give one party an unfair advantage in elections. Politicians pick their voters instead of voters picking their representatives, producing lopsided results that don't reflect how people actually voted.
The system used to elect the US President, where each state gets electors equal to its congressional delegation. Voters don't directly elect the president — they vote for electors who then cast the official ballots, a system that can produce winners who lost the popular vote.