Re: CHAT (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida

On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> I only know preferential voting schemes from science fiction fandom
> --- selecting WorldCon sites for instance. In that context it's also
> possible to vote for 'None of the rest' --- and if that option ends up
> winning, there simply won't be a WorldCon in the year in question.
<laugh>  I hadn't thought of that!  But then, I have never been to a con,
though I'd love to go sometime.  :-(

> It would be interesting if the voters in a country could do the same
> --- telling the politicos that 'if that's really the best candidates
> you can offer, we think we're better off without a president at all.'
<snicker>  I wonder what the politicos would do in that case.

YHL