On 4/16/12 8:25 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote:
2012/4/16 Richard Fobes <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>On 4/16/2012 12:50 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote: On 4/16/12 12:42 PM, Richard Fobes wrote: As I recall the issue is that I stated in a previous message that Approval voting was very unlikely to be adopted for use in U.S. Presidential _general_ elections. Here are some reasons: 1: Making that change requires adopting a Constitutional Amendment. not precisely. there is a going state compact movement that will essentially make the Electoral College a figurehead. it will exist, but it will be powerless. and it doesn't need a Constitutional amendment, because the Constitution says that the state legislatures have the exclusive authority in defining how the presidential electors are chosen. ... > ... Notice that the "state compact movement" specifies that the state's electoral votes goes to the candidate with the "most votes."Yes, the current compact which has been adopted by several states is to use a nationwide plurality vote. However, a compact to use approval voting could, in theory, be adopted by those same states, and the wording could be such that the approval contact supercedes the plurality one as soon as states representing enough electoral votes sign onto the approval one.
but how do the states adopting the compact know who the true Approval winner is when state who haven't adopted the compact do not supply the full approval data, since voting for more than one spoils their ballots? would it just accept those numbers as single approvals on every ballot?
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