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		timeon 82 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of ful... > third party If you had open system (not one or two-party system) there would be more than three parties.

setr 82 days ago [–]

it is an open system; the two-party-in-practice nature of it is a result of optimizing over the ruleset. specifically, you need to get rid of the winner-takes-all vote

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