ta_leadran_orm

ta_leadran_orm , 7 days ago

As an Irish person, we have ranked choice single transferrable voting, one big benefit I see is that people can vote for less popular candidates that they closely align with without throwing away their vote, since when the candidate is eliminated your vote is transferred to your next choice.

One other thing that I thinks is very important is proportional representation, which means that for a given constituency, instead of a single candidate being chosen multiple are, for example is my constituency we have 5 Teach Dáile (members of our Dáil/parliament)
This means that less popular candidates will have a real chance of getting a seat.
It also means that more of the population is represented, for example in my constituency each candidate would get on average about 15%+ of the vote, meaning that 75%+ of the voting population are represented, unlike the 40% or so that a two party system usually has

And it's not confusing, we're thought how it works in school and voting is the easy part, counting us more tricky, but is understandable when properly explained

ta_leadran_orm , 10 months ago

Oh, I've several. Irish people love a good curse.

Go mbrise an diabhal do dhá chois
May the devil break your legs

Go ndéana an diabhal dréimire do chnámh do dhroma
May the devil make a ladder out of your spine

Go n-imí an droch aimsir leat
That the bad weather leaves with you

Go n-ithe an cat thú is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat
May the cat eat you and may the devil eat the cat

And my personal favourite:
Lá breá ag do chairde, dod adhlacadh
May your friends have a fine day, burying you