Trump Thread

[rory_20_uk]

For myself, I am less concerned with investigating our current leadership (save to determine whether willful collusion occurred) but profoundly interested in securing the mechanics of the election process to prevent tampering by external actors (and minimize tampering by party hacks as well). I do not believe we can entirely prevent, in a free society, some person, nation, or group from attempting to influence and persuade the electorate. I WOULD like to see efforts made to increase the transparency of such suasory efforts and prevent the most egregious efforts by outside actors to damage the electoral process.

The system in the USA is not fit for purpose.

For the President have a proper plebiscite - and why on earth not? The odd system the USA makes no sense.
Have a proper body undertake voting district boundaries. Ideally at a Federal level but I doubt that would work. And some independent oversight.

And wherever possible remove the whole first past the post approach.

But who would want to fix things when it works so well for the current winners? Make a big noise about external influences to the whole broken edifice and ignore the central issue.