[This is for any lurkers that still haven't killfiled the whole thread.] Russell Coker via luv-talk wrote:
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Transferrable_Vote#Issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method#Potential_for_tactical_voting The second one gets kinda mathy. It's what Debian uses. The broken dumb-head way is called FPTP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting#Criticisms But the US system is even more dumb; it has all these horrible kludges to cope with the fact that in the Olden Days, you had to go everywhere by horse or foot, and it took ages. And the dudes that could fix it are the incumbents, so there's zero incentive for them to fix it. In the UK they got as far as a referendum, but everyone was dumb, so it still didn't get fixed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum,_20...