[EM] Ken B.: Changing voting system law

[Michael Ossipoff]

On 11/10/2012 9:18 AM, Michael Ossipoff wrote:

> If there is a voting system that can be enacted at national level,
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[Ken B.]  Unless something's changed recently, there's no national
voting system now and never has been in the USA.

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No one said otherwise, if you mean a federally-decreed national voting system.

But Plurality is certainly effectively the national voting system. And
it's probably no co-incidence that the national voting system is also
the method best able to keep on electing two unliked parties forever
at Myerson-Weber equilibrium.

Ken B. continued:

Voting methods and
election rules are set at the state and local level.

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Federal law and the Constitution have some authority too.

Ken B. asked:

You'd need an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to create a national
voting system, wouldn't you?

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Go for it. But don't hold your breath.

My point was that Republocrat officeholders are not at all motivated
to change the voting system.

Mike Ossipoff