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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • First past the post is a method of voting, wherein voters mark one candidate as their favoriite, and the candidate with more first-preference votes than any other candidate (a plurality) is elected, even if they do not have more than half of votes (a majority).

    This forces the voter to strategize and vote for what they think is the ‘least worst’ candidate that has a chance to receive the most choices, rather than their favorite candidate. It’s therefore probably one of the worst form of election, as it encourages status quo, gerrymandering, and voting based on popularity rather than ideas and programs.

    For a more democratic electoral system, see for example single transferable vote.














  • They used to but it’s not for sale anymore. It was a really cheap membrane keyboard anyway, so not something I would want to use. I’m actually fine with the location of the letters, it’s the illogical distribution of parentheses, slashes, quotation marks, square brackets etc. that I find irritating in AZERTY. I wouldn’t want to relearn it from scratch, I just wish I could get my hands on some quality new AZERTY keycaps.