Doing an AltaVista News search on "electoral system" turns up some interesting results: Electoral System: Time for an Upgrade? (ZD Net News): http://live.altavista.com/scripts/editorial.dll?ei=2306279&ern=y "Look into preferential voting. First-past-the-post voting not only makes it "Mission: Impossible" to be a third party; three-horse races can lead to the bizarre situation where a candidate with less than 50 percent of the vote (such as Bill Clinton in 1992) can end up in the White House." Abroad, Fascination Is Mixed With Official Embarrassment (Washington Post) http://live.altavista.com/scripts/editorial.dll?ei=2306597&ern=y "Many other countries found the electoral vote system hard to follow. At a big election night party in London, a befuddled British politician approached an American and asked, "Where is this electoral college?" World Baffled by U.S. Election Cliffhanger (Reuters) http://live.altavista.com/scripts/editorial.dll?ei=2306067&ern=y ``They have an idiotic system of government invented 200 years ago,'' said analyst Christoph Bertram, head of Germany's Research Institute for International Affairs. ``Why should it work?'' he asked in an interview with Reuters last week. ``You may have a situation where the candidate who wins in the electoral college may not win the popular vote -- it is an extraordinary political system not to be emulated by anyone.'' Rob Lanphier [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eskimo.com/~robla
