Re: OT Politics Re: Three Body Problem

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:
 

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.

 
Which the citizens of Alaska, IIRC, will shortly be voting on ...
prohibiting, having had actual experience with it.
 
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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