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Does your country use First Past The Post elections? Because that's how we do things in North America, and all it does is boil all of politics down to 2 parties.
I don't even have a clue what it means. Sounds like a horse race or a running race, except yank elections never have any politicians fit enough to swim in a race, let alone run in it.
No, we all vote (unless we are rich enough to pay the non-voting fine, many well-off people choose not to vote and pay the fine) and the votes are all counted. I assume you mean they only count USian votes until one team has "enough"? Seems very corrupt, but it doesn't mean your vote isn't important.
North America has a lot of countries in it, you don't seem to realise that?
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