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Fedi.Tips

Hello to all the wonderful Germans following this account 👋

Please, for the sake of humanity, use your vote today to stop the AfD.

Thanks to Germany's excellent proportional voting system, Germans have a wide range of parties to vote for and every vote counts towards the result. Voting for any party except the AfD will help to stop them by diluting their vote share.

If ever there was a time to vote, today is that day. This is your chance to make a difference.

EDIT: See voting tip in reply!

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p.s. Important voting tip from many contributors:

1. Use first vote to choose your favourite candidate from those likely to win in your particular voting district. It doesn't matter if their party is small nationally, the candidate can still get in if they are popular in your district.

2. Use second vote to choose your favourite from parties likely to get over 5% of the vote.

If you do both these things, it will make your vote most effective 👍

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@Stefan_S_from_H @jssfr@floss.social

I'm going by info here, is this not correct?

👉 zombofant.net/@jssfr/114053424

ZombodonJonas Schäfer (@jssfr@zombofant.net)@ives@mstdn.social @FediTips@social.growyourown.services You get a ballot with two columns. Left hand is the first vote, right hand is the second vote. The first vote is for a *person* associated with a *party*, which differs per voting district. The person with the most votes in that district gets a seat (or used to, see below). In any case, the first votes are only summarized up to the district level, then the winning candidate is chosen. The second vote is for a *party*. The second votes are summarized across the entire country. The second vote determines the ratio of seats the parties get. Before the last change of mechanics between 2021 and today, all candidates chosen via the first vote would get in unconditionally. That caused caused the parliament to get insanely large because the share of parties as determined by the second vote still had to be upheld. Example: if the target size of parliament was 500 and a party got 20%, but 110 candidates were elected via first vote, they would get 10 extra seats, which would then cause 40 extra seats to be distributed among the other parties to ensure the correct ratio (I hope I didn't make maths mistake here). That led to an insanely large parliament in the past, so it was changed so that extra directly elected candidates would not get into the parliament (the ranking of candidates which get in is based on number of votes, IIRC). Wikipedia has more details https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundestag#Election_system_(since_2023) And to elaborate on how that relates to what I wrote earlier: If a party has less than 5% share of second votes, it is barred from entering parliament, *unless* it has at least three directly elected candidates. So the first vote can be used to get a party in which would barely fail due to the 5% hurdle, but only if people coordinate in a district (because there it's winner-takes-all). The second vote is thus usually wasted on smaller parties and that only benefits the largest parties.
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@FediTips @Stefan_S_from_H @jssfr@floss.social I think that information is correct. It's the first time for us over here as well ;) ... and I frankly doubt many people took the time to study the new rules to the fullest. But what you're stating there is basically correct.

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