[EM] In effect and in voting theory, Plurality is a rankings method. (Supplementary Vote)
James Gilmour
jgilmour at globalnet.co.uk
Sat Feb 7 16:46:02 PST 2004
Steve Barney
> FYI, also known as the "Second Choice Vote," it was used
> statewide in the
> Wisconsin election of 1914 (see appendix in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InstantRunoffWI/message/33>),
> and a bill for
> reinstating in was sponsored by a Wisconsin State Senator by
> the name of
> Morticai Lee shortly after the 1980 spliting of the vote
> which resulted in
> the election of President Ronald Reagan. More recently,
> Morticai put in a
> plug for it in his Jan. 16 appearance on Wisconsin Public TV
> ("Here and
> Now" Transcript #000228,
> <http://www.wpt.org/npa/transcripts/index.cfm?did=7741#2>.
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