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One-person-one-vote is a terrible system, with the only advantage of it being simple and easy to understand, which was important when votes could be counted only by hand.

CGP Grey has made an excellent and well known video series explaining this, so I don't think I need to debate it much further here.

CGP Grey Voting Series: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLej2SlXPEd37YwwEY7mm0W...

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Do any of those CGP Grey videos actually address one-person-one-vote? Looking at the titles of the videos they seem to be mostly critiques of how votes are grouped rather than how much voting power a single individual has. For example, criticising the electoral college system in the US has nothing to do with one-person-one-vote, it's a criticism of how the winner is decided.

You didn't answer the question, you just said the current voting system is bad.

Isn't it a bit pedantic to want me to repeat arguments from the original post?

OK, here you go: "Weyl and Lalley prove that the collective decision rapidly approximates efficiency as the number of voters increases. By contrast, no extant voting procedure is efficient."

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