A helluva good idea, Joe.
Maybe the current fiasco will lead to some revisions in that direction,
although it might possibly require a Constitutional Amendment. (I don't have
time to read through it at the moment, so I don't know for sure.)
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Joseph B. Reid
> Sent: November 20, 2000 17:54
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:9276] Re: US metric and integers
>
>
> Bill Potts wrote in USMA 9272:
>
> >Scott Clauss wrote:
> >> I suspect this is why other countries have run off elections.
> >
> >Which is really the only fair way to deal with a mere plurality.
> That way,
> >there is no such thing as a spoiler.
> >
> >If run-offs were the normal practice here, Nader could have got his 5%
> >without affecting the outcome for the other two.
>
>
> I might add that the same result would be obtained in one election using
> the Australian system of single transferable vote, in which the
> voter marks
> his preferences by 1, 2, 3, etc. It was introduced in Queensland in the
> 19th century and is now used in all electios throughout Australia to the
> lower houses of parliament.
>
>
