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First-past-the-post voting systems are extra dangerous. I.e. where all the votes of a district go to the winner of the district.

If instead all votes go proportionally according to what people voted, you get less extreme policies and encourage parties to build coalitions. Nobody is happy, but fewer people are extremely unhappy.



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