Archive for October 2003

The monthlies.

• Instant Runoff Voting

  Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) is the answer to our plurality issues with elections. Under a plurality system, a person can win with only, say, 35% of the vote. A runoff election is costly, and eliminates all but the top two candidates. The answer, my friends, is IRV. If you haven’t researched IRV, please do, for [...]

• Arnold’s Backroom Apology

  My source inside the Join Arnold campaign (which has been wildly successful) leaked me the following first draft of his apology for allegedly sexually harassing six women (and likely many others). “I apologize sincerely to any woman I may have mistreated or misdone in my past, although I did not live my life to run [...]

• 1800 Election Results

  The following are the results of the 1800 election for President which resulted in the first constitutional crisis. Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, both running as Democratic-Republicans, each received 73 electoral votes. There being no winner the election was taken up in the House of Representatives (as per the Constitution) and a lengthy vote ensued [...]

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