Would It Be Feasible to Switch to the Australian Voting System?

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First amendment doctrine, or in free expression philosophy, is under challenge here. One of the foundational reasons we have for not censoring speech has actually proved not to be correct. And that leads us to potentially a very bad place in which we don't respect free speech rights as much if we're worried about outcomes. Could the australian voting system negate many of the flaws within the current american voting system?

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