11-01-2004, 02:08 AM
Ah, so I can head down to vote and we can cancel each other out. And life goes on. Now neither of our votes counts.
I have read about other voting systems. Nonwe of them have to do with the electoral college, but they are designed to be more fair. One idea is to have people pick first, second, etc. choices and whoever gets the most added up wins, which could help 3rd parties because although they may still get to little votes, people can pick the major runners in the same order they would otherwise. The idea is that someone who ois everyone's second choice has a good chance, where as otherwise they would loose to someone who is more people's 1st choice, since only the 1st choice gets counted in howit works now.
There are some elector systems that split the votes. Main and Nebraska give two to the overall winner and 1 per congressional district, Colorado has a change up for voting of whether to split it's votes in proportion to the actual popular ones. Whether these would keep the electoral college doing what it was designed for while staying fair is up for grabs.
Off topic: How about the senate election? Wasn't it "fun"?
I have read about other voting systems. Nonwe of them have to do with the electoral college, but they are designed to be more fair. One idea is to have people pick first, second, etc. choices and whoever gets the most added up wins, which could help 3rd parties because although they may still get to little votes, people can pick the major runners in the same order they would otherwise. The idea is that someone who ois everyone's second choice has a good chance, where as otherwise they would loose to someone who is more people's 1st choice, since only the 1st choice gets counted in howit works now.
There are some elector systems that split the votes. Main and Nebraska give two to the overall winner and 1 per congressional district, Colorado has a change up for voting of whether to split it's votes in proportion to the actual popular ones. Whether these would keep the electoral college doing what it was designed for while staying fair is up for grabs.
Off topic: How about the senate election? Wasn't it "fun"?
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The gloves come off, I'm playing hardball. It's fourth and 15 and you're looking at a full-court press. (Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun)
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The gloves come off, I'm playing hardball. It's fourth and 15 and you're looking at a full-court press. (Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun)
Some people in forums do the next best thing to listening to themselves talk, writing and reading what they write (source, my brother)