2012 Elections results finally in US officially applies 4 Banana Republic status @ UN

[Tiberius]

[quote='Tiberius' pid='382441' dateline='1357558088']
I see the benefit of your system in a presidential election. But the voting part should be left to the voters and votes shouldn`t be redestributed by a post election administrative body.
If the ballot gives the opertunity to vote croos-party-lines in order to rank candidates it seems to be very usefull to me.

But I am still a bit uncomfortable with cross-party voting, even in a ranking system.

Eurgh. You are still not getting it.

Voting IS left to the voters. They are ranking candidates instead of just voting for one. The votes aren't just redistributed at random by an administrative body; they are redistributed according to how the voter wanted his vote redistributed (which could be to multiple candidates over several rounds, or not at all).

Besides, it isn't a "post election" body doing it; technically, the election is still going on whilst the votes are counted and redistributed during the rounds.

The voting count could take longer and the arrangement of who voted whom.

I would have to see an example of where it is done this way to be certain.

The only way it would take longer is if everything was done by hand. I'm not suggesting that happen at all. If a computer were counting the votes and doing the calculations, the entire election could be sorted out very quickly indeed.