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 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: References: 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: Bytes: 3347 On 8/26/24 08:45, Paul S Person wrote: > On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 10:21:11 -0700, 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" >>> 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