Too complicated. Americans don't even understand the much simpler and (IMHO) sufficient ranked choice voting [1]. Alaska, a deep red state, sent a Democrat to Congress because the voters split their votes between 2 Republican candidates because they didn't rank both candidates.
While I think RCV would be better, I still don't think it solves the problem. There are a bunch of ways in which our system is designed to create a two party system, such as what constituionally happens if no candidate gets a majority of votes in the electoral college [2].
That aside, look at other countries. Has more than two parties really helped in practice? Germany, the UK, Israel and France all have 3+ parties in their house of representatives equivalent and all have swung to the right.
Practically speaking, we could solve a bunch of our problems by simply repealing the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 [3], which set the number of House members to 435 and a district size of 700k+. This would take a simple majority in the House and Senate and would revert district sizes back to 30,000. This would kill gerrymandering, practically speaking.
[1]: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/3624553-re...
[2]: https://www.usa.gov/electoral-college
[3]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reapportionment_Act_of_1929
While I think RCV would be better, I still don't think it solves the problem. There are a bunch of ways in which our system is designed to create a two party system, such as what constituionally happens if no candidate gets a majority of votes in the electoral college [2].
That aside, look at other countries. Has more than two parties really helped in practice? Germany, the UK, Israel and France all have 3+ parties in their house of representatives equivalent and all have swung to the right.
Practically speaking, we could solve a bunch of our problems by simply repealing the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 [3], which set the number of House members to 435 and a district size of 700k+. This would take a simple majority in the House and Senate and would revert district sizes back to 30,000. This would kill gerrymandering, practically speaking.
[1]: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/3624553-re...
[2]: https://www.usa.gov/electoral-college
[3]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reapportionment_Act_of_1929