In the discussion about voting methods at
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/01/2139227tid=226
Orzetto raises a point that I haven't seen mentioned before, that ranked
ballot methods are more susceptible to vote selling and coersion than
simpler methods such as Plurality or
Forest W Simmons Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 12:56 AM
A writer in the most recent Zmagazine says that 85% of congressional
elections are won by the incumbent, and goes on to say that most of the
other 15% are cases in which the incumbent has died or retired.
With this in mind, why not
