I'm sorry that my first post to debian-user is so off-topic, and that I don't have a key yet. I hope to rectify the latter ASAP.
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 01:34:11PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > In theory, we have a multi-party system. In practice, voting for a > "third-party" candidate is a wasted vote, because everyone "knows" that > every vote cast outside of the Big Two is wasted, and so no one bothers. > > If we had a system in which we could vote more than once, for example by > specifying a first, second, and third choice, maybe we would see some > shake-up. The concept I believe you're formulating is commonly called Instant Runoff Voting. It's an exciting voting reform developed in the 1870s that has been gaining some small momentum of late. Cheers, Jason Whittle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
