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by bryanlarsen 591 days ago
> There's no reason why it should fall apart any more than the electoral college should.

People will accept a flawed mechanism that's been used for 200 years far more readily than a new slightly-less-flawed-but-still-flawed mechanism.

And every voting mechanism has trade-offs, so every mechanism has flaws from certain perspectives.