2024 US Presidential Election

Pal Joey wrote:

navyblueshorts wrote:Without bothering to check, I wonder if the lack of tolerance mentioned is a function of those States with a FPTP-type electoral system, and is less common when there's a PR-style system and likely, therefore, more focus on policies that have more universal agreement?

Think the lack of tolerance is commonplace in both systems but the actual impact on the final outcome can certainly be different. The preferential PR system we have here is more complicated and tricky. Preference flows can vary wildly across different constituencies and quickly turn things upside down for the major two parties... to the point where things become so diluted and fragmented - at the expense of the major policies which may have some degree of universal agreement. It's probably more sensitive and more volatile than FPTP.

Also takes ages to tally it all up. As Duty noted; Florida was counted pretty quickly. A few weeks ago here in Qld... it reached "60% counted" in a small electorate in the same time (a few hours) then stalled for several days before the seat was actually called. And we're talking about 50,000 votes v 11,000,000 votes in Florida. Can even take weeks and several recounts sometimes. So the PR system is slower and more agonising.