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On 8/25/2024 10:21 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> 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.
> 
Alaska did give us Sarah Palin....

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