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date    = "2026-11-03T23:43:51+00:00"
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I feel for the [confused](/tdro/messages/tea-leaves/#tdro-messages-tea-leaves) folks? We should've swapped to proportional voting and
fixed election dates already. It'd remove so much kiddish futility. Let's be
honest, no majority actually cares about candidates, independents, or
independent boundaries ([proof](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2002_Bahamian_referendum#:~:text=All,against))!

[Who](/tdro/messages/politics/#tdro-messages-politics) even watches/reads news closely anyway!? Ignoring independents, say, with a
crude [proportional](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party-list_proportional_representation)
system of [closed list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_list) party
representation, the [results](https://www.bahrep.com/elections/2026/) would've looked like:

```
- Governing Party: 21 seats (51% of 41 seats)
- Opposing Party:  15 seats (35% of 41 seats)
- Third Party:      5 seats (12% of 41 seats)
```

We "copied" New Zealand ([proof](https://cdn.bahamas.gov.bs/tenant/tenanttgotb/documents/All%20Documents/Brash-ShewanReportFinal-20240209165608.pdf))
on taxes, might as well [copy the rest](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proportional_representation#/media/File:FPTP_vs_PR.png),
{{< abbr imo "in my opinion" >}}.