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

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 01:51:56 +1030 Morgan Palaeo Associates
<morganpalaeo@...> writes:

I'd
> like to see
> > > Americans adopt a preferential voting system, or an equally
> sophisticated
> > > equivalent.
> >
> > If I understand you correctly, does this mean that you would
> advocate a
> > system where everyone, say, marks candidates in order of
> preference?
>
> Yup. Just like we've always done here in Aus.
Y'all invented the secret ballot, so we can learn something from Down
Under.  We're a de facto two-party system though, so I don't think a
preferential voting system would go too well.

I do think there needs to be some standarization of how ballots and
ballot counting works.  It's all county-level, and some counties are
dreadfully poor or unwilling to keep with the times.  I'd say it should
be all organized at state level, like our public schools.  (Only we're
not known for having the best public schools in the world...)

One thing I wouldn't mind -- more runoffs (when you vote again for either
of the top two candidates in the first election).  Even for the
Presidency if need me.  (We had four candidates on the ballot in every
state; the two minor candidates representing the far-left for Nader and
the far-right for Buchanan.)

DaW.