<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Jameson Quinn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jameson.quinn@gmail.com">jameson.quinn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">2011/11/22 David L Wetzell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wetzelld@gmail.com" target="_blank">wetzelld@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Aye, and that still looks better than a two-stage with a 40% cutoff(what's in place now) or FPTP. </blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Yes.</div><div class="im"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>If they had stuck with IRV in Burlington, the perceived flaws would have worked themselves out.</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>How? By people returning to lesser-evil voting, but possibly between progressives and democrats? That's not a solution in my book. </div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>The two major-party equilibrium would be centered around the de facto center. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"></div></div></blockquote></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>And even if it were, it will take several elections before the time that the spoiler isn't the first-round winner so that people can realize they're a spoiler.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><div>I do not follow.</div></div></div></blockquote>
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<div>In the US, three-way close races are not common and can be mitigated in other ways, such as are already at work with FPTP. </div>
</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I don't want to "mitigate" (that is, try to avoid) them, I want to handle them correctly.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And there is no <i>correctly </i>in the ongoing experiment called democracy. But when we get caught in notions that there are such, we tend not to experiment as much. </div>
<div><br></div><div>dlw</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>
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