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complete agreement and then some (Reply to this comment)
by voxpoptart
Mind you, if we're gonna press for the unlikely - and we should - it's also worth pulling for "Instant-Runoff Voting", which it should (should) be possible to talk the Democrats into supporting.
The even bigger obstacle the 3rd-party candidates face is that even most of the people who DO want them to win won't vote for them, in the end (polls made it clear that Ralph Nader was the preferred candidate of well over 10% of the electorate last time, for example, yet he pulled 3% of the vote). With Instant Runoff, also called "the Australian method" because it works fine there, the voters can cast backup votes. If your first choice was Browne or Nader or Buchanan, you could vote for them, and that vote would count. However, then the last-place candidate would be eliminated, and his votes would go to each of his voters' SECOND choices, and count just as much.
In other words, my Mom could've voted for Nader with backup plan Gore, instead of choosing to vote "strategically" for Gore. Gore would've gotten her vote in the end, but we'd know how much real support Browne, Nader, Buchanan at all really had, and their words would have more power.
Then, we could put their words in debates, and voom.
cheers,
- Brian
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Apr 21 '04
10:05 am PDT
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