On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 at 01:06 GMT, Jason A Whittle penned: > I'm sorry that my first post to debian-user is so off-topic, and that > I don't have a key yet. I hope to rectify the latter ASAP. > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 01:34:11PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> In theory, we have a multi-party system. In practice, voting for a >> "third-party" candidate is a wasted vote, because everyone "knows" >> that every vote cast outside of the Big Two is wasted, and so no one >> bothers. >> >> If we had a system in which we could vote more than once, for example >> by specifying a first, second, and third choice, maybe we would see >> some shake-up. > > The concept I believe you're formulating is commonly called Instant > Runoff Voting. It's an exciting voting reform developed in the 1870s > that has been gaining some small momentum of late. >
Ah, yeah, that's what it's called! There are a lot of alternate voting schemes out there. Seems there's a decent chance that some of them might be better than what we have. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
