Re: OT Politics Re: Three Body Problem

On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 08:33:13 -0700, Paul S Person
<psperson@old.netcom.invalid> 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.

 
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.

Australia uses preferential voting for all state and federal elections
It works pretty reasonably