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Neither the ones for the runoff should have a duel.
It sould saperate out those who really wanted the job from those who did not. I expect little shooting would be involved.
 
Ahh most politicos now are wussies and one would apologize or conceed.


but less politicians would be a good thing too.
 
Runoff voting often allows the worst candidate to get elected. Lessor candidates throw their support to a bad candidate who happened to come in 2nd and help elect a bad candidate .. who know owes the lessor candidate and their constituency big time.
 
blackascoal said:
Runoff voting often allows the worst candidate to get elected. Lessor candidates throw their support to a bad candidate who happened to come in 2nd and help elect a bad candidate .. who know owes the lessor candidate and their constituency big time.
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Runoff voting is totally in vogue in San Francisco now.
 
blackascoal said:
Runoff voting often allows the worst candidate to get elected. Lessor candidates throw their support to a bad candidate who happened to come in 2nd and help elect a bad candidate .. who know owes the lessor candidate and their constituency big time.
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That's not necessarily true. The one good thing about runoff voting is that it at least prevents the peoples absolute least favorite candidate from getting elected, which could happen under plurality (40% of the people vote for one conservative candidate, 60% for one of two liberal candidates). The people have to go through a direct up or down vote for two candidates - the least favorite can always be dumped. Whether or not that candidate would be "bad" is entirely a matter of a opinion.

Range voting is a bit different. It's a three tiered ballot where everyone is allowed to rank their candidate "For" "Neutral" or "Against". "For" counts as two, "Neutral" counts as 1, and "Against" counts as nothing. Although in theory no one would ever vote for anyone but their favorite, in practice the ability to vote up or down for every candidate is mainly a tacitcal consideration. Nader voters voting for Gore also, people who don't really care about the differences between two candidates and just want a liberal in... etc... etc...

It doesn't give anyone more power than anyone else because everyone has equal power to vote on every candidate, either. And if anyone doesn't like it, they can just cast "For" for one candidate. It certainly couldn't hurt.
 
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