Re: OT Politics Re: Three Body Problem

On 8/24/24 14:48, Jay E. Morris 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.

We do not have runoff in General Elections only in Primary
Elections in San Francisco at least. In the USA generally I believe.

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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.

The Ranked choice system is barely working at City Levels
and is very confusing to a great many people and the way it is
scored seems somewhat strange to me.
I would not like to see this at a State Level or even a
congressional election much less nationally. We recently
  had a tie at a county or state legislature level. This would
  have divided the vote of the one party against the candidate
of the other party but fortunately the elder of the tied candidates
yielded to youth.
If more democracy is desired in government we should
start at the state level by instituting the right of the people
to do vexatious state laws by referendum. Jerry Brown was twice
able to convince the people of the state to raise taxes for
the benefits and protections that could afford (Fires and
Quake response).
     We have an nasty law foisted upon the people
supposedly for the benefit of the aged which limits the tax
revenue from property but the real big winners were companies
owning property on which the tax could not be increased to
pay for funded services, like streets and Schools. We have
streets in very bad condition many years later and school
teachers having to spend their own remuneration for supplies.
There is a anti-tax movement which has been effectual
regarding maintaining this bad law. One Howard Jarvis
was the original leader but I think he may not be active
any longer.
bliss
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