Re: OT Politics Re: Three Body Problem

On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 10:01:43 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

On 8/26/24 08:45, Paul S Person wrote:

On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 10:21:11 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
 

On 8/25/24 08:33, Paul S Person wrote:

On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 16:48:32 -0500, "Jay E. Morris"
<morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:
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On 8/24/2024 2:37 PM, BCFD 36 wrote:

IOW, if it were the popular vote that counted, 2016 would have seen a
runoff election [1] exactly two choices: Hillary and Trump. The
expectation being that one or the other would get more that 50% of the
votes.

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Only if that is how the election laws were written. I think it would be
wildly impractical to hold multiple national elections.
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Which is why some are advocating for a ranked voting system.

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Which the citizens of Alaska, IIRC, will shortly be voting on ...
prohibiting, having had actual experience with it.
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It must be pretty stinky to get enough people to sign an initiative to
prohibit it.

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I here in San Francisco find it borderline but maybe I just
do not clearly understand the way it is scored here in city elections
with some positions contested among many candidates.
In Alaska I bet they are more conservative than San Francisco
and find this innovative system too radical for their taste.
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But since this is San Francisco radical is on the menu.

 
IIRC, it may have had more to do with how long it took to get a
result. Perhaps they felt ... embarassed.

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Our tie in a not San Francisco county took recounts and
it seemed like months to resolve and it still was a tie. As I
mentioned the elder candidate yeilded to the younger.

IIRC, tossing a coin is the traditional remedy.

At least, after pistols at dawn was ruled out.

But whatever works.
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