[geeks] California Proposition 14

[gsm at mendelson.com]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 11:50:32PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:

>Several of the alternate systems have corner cases in which they can
>generate weird results, but they *are* unusual corner cases.  Also, it's
>been mathematically proven that it is impossible to create a completely
>fair voting system.  But all of them are a hell of a lot better than the
>system we have in place now, for which both major parties have
>fine-tuned their game-the-system skills (and optimized the system for
>gaming) over more than a century of practice.

For example, the electoral college. 

Geoff.

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