Sampo writes:
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Eric Murray wrote:
Why should I vote for someone who doesn't stand for what I beleive
in just because the media says that they're "not electable"?
That's the kind of loser attitude that's gotten us a contest
that'll assuredly elect either an idiot (Bush)
So, everybody's third choice gets elected, or they take turns
holding the office, or what? Weighted voting can work for
corporate directors or other committees, but for a chief
executive? Even the electoral college sounds better.
In single transferable vote systems the winner is almost
If we implement some sort of posting cookie, it should be bakable by any
user wishing to post, and work with every conceivable variety of OS and
mailer.
One scheme which comes to mind is to allow people to mail their posts
to "N+cypherpunks@*" where N is the number of non-whitespace