[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A good article from the latest issue of Discover Magazine: > http://www.discover.com/nov_00/gthere.html?article=featbestman.html > > The system of voting used in the United States is known as a > plurality vote, meaning that each voter gets one vote, and the > candidate with the most votes wins. This style of voting can be bad > in the sense that people don't want to "waste" their votes. Some > alternative candidates that the majority would be satisfied with > don't get elected with plurality votes. > > The article talks about two other methods and their tradeoffs: > > -- Approval voting: In an approval vote, a person casts one vote for > every candidate he or she considers qualified for the office. It's > like an opinion poll, only the results are added up to determine a > winner. > > -- Borda count: In a Borda count election, each voter ranks all of > the candidates from top to bottom. If there are, say, five > candidates, then a voter's top-ranked candidate gets 5 points, his > second-ranked candidate gets 4, and so on. Finally, the points > from all the voters are added up to determine the winner. > > Jeff > > --- > http://www.netjeff.com/ No no, in the usa we have what is called an electoral college... our representatives vote for us... Sure, we can vote, but it's really pretty meaningless...... I've said it before, I'll say it again. Don't vote, or if you do vote ABSTAIN. I'm not 'not voting because I'm filled with apathy' I'm not voting because it DOESN'T A(E)ffect a DAMN thing.
