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Make Votes Matter
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Make Votes Matter is a political pressure group based in the United Kingdom which campaigns for replacing the archaic first-past-the-post voting system with one of proportional representation for elections to the British House of Commons. The group was founded in 2015.
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Yes we do.
How do we get it? By using the current highly flawed system and convincing the winner to change to a better way of doing things despite them benefitting from the status quo! Yeah, I see the problem.
Most countries receive pr through multi-party agreements, you’re on the right track by suggesting a sortition as the government could put together a group of everyday citizens to review all the electoral systems in 3 months to recommend the best one. That then the British government must be pressured to implement with the other parties.
Ireland and New Zealand pressured their establishment politicians to do the right thing and they got electoral reform passed. So the same can happen in the UK. It’s just a matter of persistence and pressure from the public.