On: How to Buy an iPhone at the Worst Possible Time

[grayrest]

That's widely considered a side effect of the system:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality_voting_system#Effect_...

[jarek → grayrest]

That was sarcasm.

As an aside, Duverger's law appears to not hold in Canada, which is FPTP (regrettably IMO) but nevertheless has seen repeated rise of major third parties (CCF/NDP, Reform/Alliance who now de facto hold power).