Systems of Voting around the World
The first voting system, also the simplest system and popular, is Plurality voting, also known as First-past-the-post voting. This is the one you’re probably most familiar with, and it’s the easiest to understand. When you go to vote, you vote for one person of your choosing, and whoever gets the most votes wins the election. This system works great because it is extremely simple to understand, but it also means that candidates don’t need a majority to win the election. They only need more votes than the other candidates on the ballot. But if you want a system that requires a majority to get elected, the next system we have is called Two Round Voting , also called “Majority Voting”. Two Round Voting fixes the main problem with first-past-the-post by requiring a majority of votes to allow a candidate to win. If no candidate secures a majority in the initial vote, a runoff election is called to pick a winner between the top two candidates who receiv...