Placeholder, sort of - 13 January 2008
Jan. 14th, 2008 02:04 amI’m back, I survived, it’s all good, I’m going to bed. Regular news service resumes tomorrow. Oh, and Doctor Football is still unbeaten.
Missing Marine found dead. Investigation underway, both on crime and on the lack of speed or response police seemed to be showing about the missing Marine.
In politics, choosing a voting system other than plurality would be an improvement to our democracy.
And the writing piece for tonight - 10 things Teenage Writers Should Know.
Missing Marine found dead. Investigation underway, both on crime and on the lack of speed or response police seemed to be showing about the missing Marine.
In politics, choosing a voting system other than plurality would be an improvement to our democracy.
And the writing piece for tonight - 10 things Teenage Writers Should Know.
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Date: 2008-01-14 08:52 pm (UTC)IRV, on the other sand works like this. Say the winning candidate needs seven votes to win by having the majority. There are three candidates, A, B, and C. The voters rank the three candidates according to their preference, #1, #2, #3.
So, counting everyone's first choice, it looks like this.
A: 3
B: 5
C: 5
So nobody wins, because nobody has enough votes. What IRV does is it eliminates candidate A, because he has the least first-place votes. Then, it checks to see which candidates were the second choice of all those who voted for A, and applies those votes. So now, it looks like this.
B: 7
C: 6
...and B wins the election, because now B has the 7 votes to win, based on those that ranked him as their first choice and those that ranked him as their second choice.
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Date: 2008-01-14 08:55 pm (UTC)I understand the IRV, but I still don't understand how I can rank two candidates equal and consider that my vote. If you follow Robert's Rules, and you can't decide on a candidate for office, you're supposed to abstain from voting.
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Date: 2008-01-14 09:24 pm (UTC)With IRV, you're not ranking candidates equally, not as far as I know. You're voting for them. "I want Candidate A into office, but if I can't get Candidate A, I'd like Candidate C, and if not either of them, Candidate B, then Candidate X..." and so on down the list of candidates. You can't give your 1 to two candidates in IRV.
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