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(Originally posted on my old blog on Nov. 27, 2013; image by Rama, via Wikimedia Commons) Voting systems are hard to introduce to students, especially some of the more creative ones. Fortunately, the internet has some really helpful resources to help explain different voting systems and the effect they have on parliaments. One of the best…

(Originally posted on my old blog on Nov 27, 2013) Here’s a quick video starting John Cleese where he tries to sell UK voters on switching to a proportional representation system (spoiler alert: he fails). It covers the basics of how a system would work. While it’s rather old school, it still provides a very…