I mean each or every country has to decide & choose for itself what system it considered best. These may shed some light on the creation of constitutions & specifically for Spore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Singapore. Constitutional changes require a 2/3 majority vote in parliament, where the legislators (MPs) are elected by the people. Major changes of the constitution is a very serious matter & a national referendum may be conducted. Whatever system we have, end of the day, it all rests on the people, the voters who determine who represents them in the government. If voters are unhappy with their choices, they just have to vote them out. The vote is the only power we have, so we have to vote very carefully
And if MPs make changes so they lose in an election, perhaps they shouldn't be there in the first place?
Let me tweak my earlier illustration a little to "scare" you more
There are 10 positions/seats to be elected to form a government. There are 4 candidates from different political parties for each position. Voting for candidates goes 26%-25%-25% & 24% for each & every position. We may end up having a government who only has 26% of all the total votes cast! ! You can try different variations for yourself. Candidates can argue about the margin of win & fairness till the cows come home but it doesn't change anything. There is a saying "a miss is as good as a mile". A contest is just a contest, there must be a winner & loser, even if there is a difference of 1 or 100 votes between contestants. Can you stipulate that a winner must have at least 75% of the votes to be legitimate? It is not practical & wont work. Nothing to do with inaccuracies. You can set a quorum on voters though. As a matter of fact, even a party with the most votes may lose an election! (e.g. M'sia recent elections). Elections are not about total votes. Maybe you can point out a specific country & system which you think it better? For me, even USA the "beacon" of democracy is not without faults & weaknessess & I dread to find such a system in our country :bsmilie:
P.S. You can try a system where there are no electoral divisions & ALL voters in a country just vote for a list of ALL the candidates. The candidates with the highest number of votes win, regardless of the party they belong to (or there are no political parties). Seems ideal to a preferred concept of most votes rule, but I can still poke plenty of holes in it