Re: CHAT: browsers

John Cowan wrote:
> Tristan scripsit:
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>>If the people vote for it, it'd go out of reach of the majority...
>>(think America).
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> If the U.S. President were directly elected by the people, Bush II
> wouldn't be sitting in the White House today.
>
> To become President, one runs in 51 separate contests (one for each
> state, one for the capital district), each of which is worth a number
> of points; points are distributed roughly on the basis of population.
> Whoever gets an absolute majority of the points wins.
How do they force an absolute majority? If there are there candidates
and one wins 15%, one 40% and the other 45%, there's no absolute
majority. I thought you did first-past-the-post?

Tristan.

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