Re: OT Politics Re: Three Body Problem

In article <vaefm9$1p7ki$1@dont-email.me>,
 Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 8/24/2024 2:48 PM, 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.

>
Only if that is how the election laws were written. I think it would
be wildly impractical to hold multiple national elections.
>

 
Which is why some are advocating for a ranked voting system.

 
And how exactly is that going to work with the Electoral College?

The ranked voting system would work by state, thus requiring no change
to the Electoral College. Thus, for example in 2016, if Wisconsin,
Michigan, and Pennsylvania had ranked voting, Hillary Clinton would had
won those states if she was the 2nd choice for most of the voters in
those states who had voted for Jill Stein (Green party).

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