2011/11/22 David L Wetzell <wetze...@gmail.com> > Aye, and that still looks better than a two-stage with a 40% cutoff(what's > in place now) or FPTP.
Yes. > If they had stuck with IRV in Burlington, the perceived flaws would have > worked themselves out. > How? By people returning to lesser-evil voting, but possibly between progressives and democrats? That's not a solution in my book. And even if it were, it will take several elections before the time that the spoiler isn't the first-round winner so that people can realize they're a spoiler. > In the US, three-way close races are not common and can be mitigated in > other ways, such as are already at work with FPTP. > I don't want to "mitigate" (that is, try to avoid) them, I want to handle them correctly. Jameson
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