The “minimum support threshold” for Germany’s MMP voting system is 1% of the voters. Without even taking things like gerrymandering and strategic voting into account, the threshold for a first-past-the-post system like in the U.S. is often well over 40% of the voters. An absurd difference.
Sure, MMP is not perfect. No system is. But it’s extremely much better than FPTP.
If you don’t meet the minimum support threshold you do not get representation.
The “minimum support threshold” for Germany’s MMP voting system is 1% of the voters. Without even taking things like gerrymandering and strategic voting into account, the threshold for a first-past-the-post system like in the U.S. is often well over 40% of the voters. An absurd difference.
Sure, MMP is not perfect. No system is. But it’s extremely much better than FPTP.