Instant runoff voting, or IRV. This tricky method of voting is a way that algore would have won the 2000 election. Everyone admits that Ralph Nader stole votes from algore and left the back door of the Whitehouse open for GWB to walk right through and take a seat in the Oval Office.
Here's how it works: GWB, algore and Nader are running. You then rank them 1-2-3.
GWB = 44% of the votes
algore = 31% of the votes
Nader = 15% of the votes
The other 10% are left blank.
Of the 15% that chose Nader as their number one choice, 95% chose algore for their second while 5% chose Bush as their second. Therefore 95% of Naders votes go to algore.
The result would look like this:
Bush = 44.75% of the votes
algore = 45.25% of the votes. algore WINS.
Does this seem fair? So you can still vote for the far out candidate and still get the democrat elected. Yes, it is a democrat thing, you have the "left" (algore) and the "very left" green party (Nader).
2007-06-14
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