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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: OT Politics Re: Three Body Problem Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 10:21:11 -0700 Organization: none at all Lines: 34 Message-ID: <vafp68$20ipo$2@dont-email.me> References: <0p74cj9ci0fi7gdq0n6ff0focttrmpg50b@4ax.com> <ee1c97625081058543bc892d2bdcc245@www.novabbs.com> <d22fa5d6-5f03-bdf3-90c7-fd89e03bf440@example.net> <va0c7p$30u2h$1@dont-email.me> <lge9cjhe5g68iokifshc92qd9h6rh6emml@4ax.com> <va2udf$3gr1g$1@dont-email.me> <gvbgcj1uo1mlmalmvtern68ubsu4ngal8p@4ax.com> <va9g12$r3a0$1@dont-email.me> <q0chcjdsgao14sb3joh95kcv9u0qb6o9if@4ax.com> <vadcph$1fq7s$1@dont-email.me> <vadkfh$1hvr7$1@epsilon3.eternal-september.org> <lijmcjpri12qri0tegvll87j7aqri3r4vu@4ax.com> Reply-To: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 19:21:12 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b783264f4a82a3d144edfe4e3e430a86"; logging-data="2116408"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19kZCVce/79cNjRVDd8EqJg" User-Agent: Betterbird (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pV9SWjfaF2FViP3fCkQBVwZrUzA= In-Reply-To: <lijmcjpri12qri0tegvll87j7aqri3r4vu@4ax.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2831 On 8/25/24 08:33, Paul S Person 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. I here in San Francisco find it borderline but maybe I just do not clearly understand the way it is scored here in city elections with some positions contested among many candidates. In Alaska I bet they are more conservative than San Francisco and find this innovative system too radical for their taste. But since this is San Francisco radical is on the menu. bliss -- b l i s s - S F 4 e v e r at D S L E x t r e m e dot com