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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: OT Politics Re: Three Body Problem
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 09:57:51 -0700
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In article <robertaw-D6FA8C.09534625082024@news.individual.net>,
 Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

> In article <vaefm9$1p7ki$1@dont-email.me>,
>  Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 8/24/2024 2:48 PM, Jay E. Morris 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.
> > 
> > And how exactly is that going to work with the Electoral College?
> 
> The ranked voting system would work by state, thus requiring no change 
> to the Electoral College. Thus, for example in 2016, if Wisconsin, 
> Michigan, and Pennsylvania had ranked voting, Hillary Clinton would had 
> won those states if she was the 2nd choice for most of the voters in 
> those states who had voted for Jill Stein (Green party).

Eep, posted too soon - she would had needed about half the Gary Johnson 
(Libertarian party) as well.

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"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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