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diff --git a/article/democracy-us.html b/article/democracy-us.html index bd51887..7b15260 100644 --- a/article/democracy-us.html +++ b/article/democracy-us.html @@ -48,7 +48,12 @@ The electoral college makes it possible to win an federal election without winning the national popular vote. It also, similarly but not as badly as the Senate, represent the people of each state disproportionally as each state has two extra electoral votes regardless of their population. </p> <p> - A subtle but serious problem with the electoral college is that electors' listening to the votes of the people is only a <em>tradition</em>. Legally, electors can vote however they want, meaning that the US is not theoretically a democracy. This hasn't happened before, but this is one more to the list of problems in the constitution. + A subtle but serious problem with the electoral college is that electors' listening to the votes of the people is only a <em>tradition</em>. Legally, electors can vote however they want, meaning that the US is not theoretically a democracy. This hasn't happened before, but this is one more to the list of problems in the constitution, and is a potential for disaster. + </p> + + <h2 id="plurality-voting">Plurality Voting</h2> + <p> + Elections in the US uses what's called ``plurality voting'', where each voter casts one vote to their favorite canidate </p> <div id="footer"> diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 6dbde52..55e15bf 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ <p>In order to verify the authenticity of the key, check if you've actually downloaded these keys from <code>andrewyu.org</code>, and also check the fingerprints with me elsewhere (email, IRC, in real life, etc) before trusting or signing it.</p> <p>Once confirmed, please sign and share my key in order to build the OpenPGP Web of Trust.</p> <h2 id="articles">Articles</h2> - <p>Pages for other projects are not listed—only independent articles are listed here. These are sorted from newest to oldest.</p> + <p>Pages for other projects are not listed—only independent articles are listed here. These are sorted from newest to oldest. Some drafts aren't listed here, but are shown in <a href="/article/">the directory index</a>.</p> <ul> <li><a href="/article/democracy-fundamentals.html">Democracy: Fundamentals</a> (Unfinished)</li> <li><a href="/article/abortion.html">Abortion</a> (Unfinished)</li> |