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CLARENCE 2015!
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« on: September 03, 2015, 08:23:19 AM »

Perhaps altering the way we do our elections would be one way to go.... many local elections have two rounds- a first round and a runoff
Every one votes for ONE candidate...if no candidate gets 50% + 1,the top two vote getters go into a run-off election....perhaps scheduled for two weeks later....

I believe there is a chance this would make elections more interesting,but either way- figured it was an idea worth proposing....

Any thoughts?
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« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2015, 10:09:06 AM »

Perhaps altering the way we do our elections would be one way to go.... many local elections have two rounds- a first round and a runoff
Every one votes for ONE candidate...if no candidate gets 50% + 1,the top two vote getters go into a run-off election....perhaps scheduled for two weeks later....

I believe there is a chance this would make elections more interesting,but either way- figured it was an idea worth proposing....

Any thoughts?
I don't really know.

That's how French elections work, but everyone is listing a preference anyway - so we know what would've happened if it was a straight race between the top two candidates.

However, it could make things more interesting...
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« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2015, 07:54:14 PM »
« Edited: September 03, 2015, 07:55:57 PM by homelycooking »

In French presidential elections, there are usually enough candidates in the race to guarantee that no individual candidate will get anywhere near a majority of the vote, and the runoff requires the top two to entice the sizable minorities that supported weaker candidates to join their causes. In most Atlasian presidential elections, however, most of the electorate already divides their first-preference support between the candidate of the left and of the right, and a runoff is unlikely to change that. STV already approximates the results of a runoff by distributing voters to their second- or third-preferenced candidates.

Barring the Borda count or, well, sortition, STV/IRV is about as interesting as elections can get.
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