[geeks] California Proposition 14

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" From: Dave Fischer <dave at cca.org>
" 
" adh at an.bradford.ma.us writes:
" 
" >i've been toying with an idea that afaics has only theoretical value.
" >today we blow our vote only on the candidate we like best, but suppose
" >we were allowed to rank our choices?  eg. #1-#5 for a 5-candidate
" >field...  my idea is that if the leading candidates are highly
" >polarizing, half the voters might rank candidate a #1 and b #2, while
" >the other half might rank candidate c #1 and b #2.  b should win the
" >race as the candidate more agreeable to more voters, but in our
" >present system he'd receive no votes at all.
" 
" Similar to:
" 
" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
" 
" Which works very well.

yes, rather [and heartening to see], but i imagined a point-scoring
system similar to [for instance] auto racing.  1st choice gets 10 pts,
2nd gets 8, 3rd gets 6, 4th gets 5...  the spread could be linear or
on a curve.  the candidate with the most points wins.

i don't know if any system is quite like it; i think it'd be hard to
implement without computers.
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