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🗓️ 22 October 2014
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The 2014 Midterm Elections are coming up in the United States so it's time for another installment of 'Politics of the Animal Kingdom'. Make sure to start at part one if you haven't seen them all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo&list=PL7679C7ACE93A5638
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Official discussion at: http://www.reddit.com/r/cgpgrey
http://www.reddit.com/r/CGPGrey/comments/2jzilo/politics_in_the_animal_kingdom_single/
EXTRA: STV Election Example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac9070OIMUg
Footnote * from STV: Proportional Systems vs STV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DNtsjB7L_I
Footnote † from STV: Switch To STV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PukSDm0RD2E
Footnote ‡ from STV: Hare Vs Droop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRc630BSTIg
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0:00.0 | Queen Lion is looking to make the elections in her animal kingdom more fair. |
0:04.0 | Currently, she divides her citizens into ranges, each of which selects one representative to go to the jungle council which makes laws for the kingdom. |
0:10.0 | But her citizens are unhappy, and it's easy to see why. The council is full of monkeys. |
0:15.0 | Of course, some of her citizens are monkeys, but not all of them. This council doesn't fairly represent her kingdom. |
0:21.6 | Queen Lion visits one of the ranges to find out what's wrong and how to fix it. |
0:25.4 | In this range, there are five monkeys, four tigers, three owls, two lynx, and one buffalo. |
0:30.5 | One of each runs for representative, and all citizens vote for their own species. |
0:34.8 | The election rule is that the candidate with the most votes wins, which is the monkey. But it's a pretty unsatisfying result considering that two |
0:41.5 | thirds of the citizens in this range aren't monkeys and wouldn't vote for monkeys. This is the |
0:45.9 | same across all the ranges of the kingdom. The monkeys always happen to have more votes than |
0:50.4 | anybody else so they win all the elections, even though they're a minority of the total population. |
0:56.0 | Closer inspection reveals that the independent advisors hired to draw the range boundaries in the first place weren't as independent as they might have appeared. |
1:03.0 | The result is unhappy citizens who don't trust the jungle council to make the fairest laws for all, quite rightly. |
1:09.0 | Now Queen Lion wants to maximize the number of citizens happy with the election results. |
1:13.5 | One way to do that is to abolish the ranges and use a proportional system. |
1:17.2 | But her citizens want local representatives. |
1:19.8 | So Queen Lion needs a system that both makes her citizens happier by having a more representative |
1:24.1 | council while keeping the local elections in place. |
1:27.4 | After doing a little |
1:27.8 | research she finds out how single transferable vote. The big change with STV is that |
1:33.1 | ranges send more than one representative, which may seem weird but Queen Line |
1:37.2 | decides to test it out. She takes three ranges which used to each send one |
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