Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!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: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 10:01:43 -0700
Organization: none at all
Lines: 44
Message-ID: <vaicdn$2hole$1@dont-email.me>
References: <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> <vafp68$20ipo$2@dont-email.me>
 <km8pcjh9dkmetlh8rj8vpkdk9v1b7knu23@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: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 19:01:44 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c780c4563b450e66665031d449684fec";
	logging-data="2679470"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18yZvuRwylpnnNxgO8ej5K+"
User-Agent: Betterbird (Linux)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:t8vM0m9UEilFBpnNMwKiDeO/PU4=
Content-Language: en-US
In-Reply-To: <km8pcjh9dkmetlh8rj8vpkdk9v1b7knu23@4ax.com>
Bytes: 3347

On 8/26/24 08:45, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 10:21:11 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
> <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> 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.
>>
>> 	But since this is San Francisco radical is on the menu.
> 
> IIRC, it may have had more to do with how long it took to get a
> result. Perhaps they felt ... embarassed.

	Our tie in a not San Francisco county took recounts and
it seemed like months to resolve and it still was a tie. As I
mentioned the elder candidate yeilded to the younger.

	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