Notices by Potatoes Fall (potatoes_fall@social.tchncs.de)

@aral

I sometimes wonder if democracy is at all still a core value of most Europeans.

In Germany, votes for parties that get less than 5% are discarded. They are not re-assigned to another second choice. To no surprise, parties only seem to care about this when they get close to getting kicked out of parliament. Meanwhile the biggest party CDU has a D for democracy in their name, shameful.