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Please note that Australia's use of proportional representation is only in senatorial and state elections. The elections that determine who gets to form a federal government (Australian House of Representatives elections) are held under the non-proportional majority-preferential system (instant-runoff voting).

The US could abolish the electoral college without replacing the first-past-the-post system (assuming by that you mean single-winner plurality voting): https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation

I'd like the US to both abolish the electoral college and adopt a different voting system for presidential elections. Actually, I consider the voting system used for the Australian House of Representatives more suitable for presidential elections than for parliamentary elections.



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