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On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 08:33:13 -0700, Paul S Person
<psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

>On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 16:48:32 -0500, "Jay E. Morris"
><morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:
>
>>On 8/24/2024 2:37 PM, BCFD 36 wrote:
>>>> IOW, if it were the popular vote that counted, 2016 would have seen a
>>>> runoff election [1] exactly two choices: Hillary and Trump. The
>>>> expectation being that one or the other would get more that 50% of the
>>>> votes.
>>> 
>>> Only if that is how the election laws were written. I think it would be 
>>> wildly impractical to hold multiple national elections.
>>> 
>>
>>Which is why some are advocating for a ranked voting system.
>
>Which the citizens of Alaska, IIRC, will shortly be voting on ...
>prohibiting, having had actual experience with it.
>
>It must be pretty stinky to get enough people to sign an initiative to
>prohibit it.

Australia uses preferential voting for all state and federal elections
It works pretty reasonably