Here in Maine we have Ranked Choice and despite the complaints of voting theory diehards, it I think is a good first step.

However, the problem is that Republicans immediately latched on that this would erode their power base, when the fairly disparate opinions of Maine conservatives and non-liberals are actually able to choose what they want.

So now changes to voting are part of the culture war. Republicans were vocally against ranked choice voting, and stonewalled it in the courts after it was passed. Their primary call to action was "One person, one vote", and no, they do not care that that doesn't make any fucking sense as an actual complaint against RCV.

Here in Nova Scotia our worst police and government excesses now seem quaint by comparison. The unhinged violence, bieng directed by police at people who pose no possible threat shown in videos every single day and The six pack confescation of someones plane which is absolute proof of racketiering and thuggery makes almost any other country in the world look better, or if not better, not worse. Realy find what is happening hard to process and wonder where it goes next. If things get realy bad, you guys(Mainers) can take the border signs for Canada and move them to your southern border, well unless Mass wants them.

Change your voting system to something other than FPTP while you still can, or suffer a similar fate one day.

Canada is different, we are still a consitutiinal monarchy, and are unlikely to change, then there is "Kaybek" or "Qbek" which just sits there bieng french, there whole attitude to the rest of Canada can be summed up as a fiegned surprise of "oh your still here", and then there is our semi autonomous Inuit territory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunavut and we have this very strange habit of splitting the vote and giving our governments teater totter mandates. Today is a Canadian national holliday of the sort the US is devoid of: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/nationa...