Dear James, thanks for your comments. Answers in the text below.
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:53 AM, James Gilmour <[email protected]>wrote: > Peter Zbornik > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 9:04 PM > > Well I think the argument that two-rounds systems are silly > > and complex, can be countered with the fact that it is used > > all throughout Europe and elsewhere. > > Yes, and the French Presidential election of 2002 showed us very clearly > what is wrong with such two-round voting systems. > As Juho, wrote, that problem would be solved with my proposal. > > > > I would say runoff > > elections are the standard way of conducting single member > > elections. Even though I have no data for this claim, > > Yes, I should like to see some hard data to back up that statement. > Since we have no data, and both of us probably won't bother enough to dig it up, I change my claim above to "I would say runoff elections are one of the two standard ways of conducting single member elections, the other one being FPTP". I have no data for that claim too, but maybe you will agree to it anyway. I simply don't know of any widely used single-winner election system than those two. > James Gilmour > > >
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