[EM] Majority Winners (was Ventura)

[DEMOREP1 at aol.com]

Alex wrote in part-

I agree that MN should have used a different election method, so that

whoever their governor might be he can claim more than 37%% support.

However, calling Ventura's election a "subversion of democracy" seems to

imply that he shouldn't have taken office.  If somebody fails to get a

majority in our plurality system should he say "Nope, I'm not taking

office, that wouldn't be right, even though I won the election according to

law"?  Who SHOULD take office?
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D- I mention the obvious.

A legislative body can elect/ appoint (by a majority vote) any officer who 
fails to get 50 percent plus 1 of the votes for the office from the voters.

This ain't rocket science or nuclear physics or DNA math.

Are ALL of the politicians in MN or elsewhere with plurality regimes totally 
clueless about majority rule in single office elections ???

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