On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 00:13, William Sherwin wrote:
> So, please tell me, though this is off-topic: if elections were
> to be held in Israel in which two parties split the vote evenly
> - 60 Knesset seats for each - and the sides were unwilling to
> cooperate, how would the government be determined?
>
> May that scenario never happen...
In USA, most of the electors are bound not to change their votes.
In Israel, there is rich tradition of "Calentarism". This included a
political party, all of whose MPs were "Calentars" except for the
founder (Raful Eitan).
So if a tie ever happened, then a MP would desert his party by declaring
neutrality, which in effect means his support for the opposite party.
Other MPs would threaten but persuaded not to carry out their threats to
desert their party. The net result is that the balances would tip in
favor of one side.
--- Omer
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