RE: 2012 Elections results finally in US officially applies 4 Banana Republic status @ UN
January 7, 2013 at 7:28 am
(January 7, 2013 at 7:13 am)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: All in all, I have no problem with your proposal. But the "redistribution" of the votes is the only thing on which I have doughts.That is how it works though. By ranking the candidates, you are effectively saying "I'm voting for D, but if D doesn't get through, I want to vote for A, and if A doesn't get through, I want to vote for...etc."
If this process is not done by the electorate by giving those who voted D the chance to vote again for any candidate except D.
Ranking has the advantage of allowing only one election, rather than having multiple elections as France does (which costs far more money). If you think about it, since no candidates can join the election between rounds, each subsequent round will have the same candidates as the last, minus one.
Indeed, if we were to separate voting out so that each round had a new vote, then it would re-introduce the problem of tactical voting, with people able to know the percentage distributions from the last rounds, and altering their vote accordingly.
Quote:But in short, I have to say that this process you propose has the potential to make a election a very long and tiersome process, whilest elections should be short.How? There is one election, rather than two (or more). If votes are computerized, the result can be generated in a very short amount of time. It's actually a very very short election process when done properly.
