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Congressional Democrats seeking to reinstate net neutrality rules are still 46 votes short of getting the measure through the House of Representatives.
The US Senate voted last month to reverse the Federal Communications Commission's repeal of net neutrality rules, with all members of the Democratic caucus and three Republicans voting in favor of net neutrality.
A discharge petition needs 218 signatures to force a House vote on the same net neutrality bill, and 218 votes would also be enough to pass the measure. So far, the petition has signatures from 172 representatives, all Democrats. That number hasn't changed in two weeks.
"We're 46 [signatures] away from being able to force a vote on the resolution to restore the Open Internet Order," Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) tweeted yesterday.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:39PM (4 children)
No, of course not.
There are only two parties. Your only choice is the one that you disagree with the least. This is an inherent property of the first past the post, single vote, winner take all system and can be proven mathematically and verified experimentally.
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Friday June 29 2018, @01:56AM (3 children)
Except Britain has FPP, single vote, winner takes all as well, but currently has 8 parties in Parliament, and a coalition governmet, so there are other problems with the US system, and they seem to revolve around money.
I think you will find that as long as the corporate interests who really run the US are allowed to keep hold of power, there will only ever be two parties.
Only because it looks better than one party though.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Friday June 29 2018, @07:04PM (2 children)
I'm not familiar with how the British Parliament works, but from a cursory search, Conservative and Labour parties take up 574 of the 650 seats. That basically proves my point. None of the other six parties have any power.
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday July 01 2018, @10:12PM (1 child)
It does the opposite of proving your point, which was that there could only be two parties.
Also the DUP is in coalition with the Conservatives, so they are part of the Government, which is the definition of having power.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Monday July 02 2018, @04:17AM
I'm sorry, let me clarify my claim: under such a voting system, there will only be two parties at any given time of any significance, and which two parties those are may change over time. During such a change, there may be more or fewer than two parties of significance, similar to how a planet's magnetic field may temporarily lose its two distinct poles during a geomagnetic reversal.
Clearly, I incorrectly assumed that these details were obvious without being explicitly stated.
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