“Exports, scholars, deep thinkers could make errors on electoral
reform,” Natapoff decided, “but nine-year-olds could explain to a Martian
why the Yankees lost in 1960, and why it was right. And both have teh same
underlying abstract principle.”
Math Against
Tyranny
Why the electoral college is A Good Thing.
For example, if all Democrats rank Gore first and Bush last, and all
Republicans rank Bush first and Gore last, voters might wake up the next
morning with a surprise winner—Ralph Nader, say, or Pat Buchanan—thanks to
all the second-place votes. The system would clearly take some getting used
to. (The problem of insincere voting was pointed out to Borda himself. His
response was characteristic of a more optimistic age: “My system is only
for honest men.”)
May
the Best Man Lose
Alternative methods of voting than simple majority or plurality.
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