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                                 Voting methods
                                        
> “Exports, scholars, deep thinkers could make errors on electoral reform,”
> Natapoff decided, “but nine-year-olds could explain to a Martian why the
> Yankees lost in 1960, and why it was right. And both have teh same
> underlying abstract principle.”
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Math Against Tyranny [1]

Why the electoral college is A Good Thing.

> For example, if all Democrats rank Gore first and Bush last, and all
> Republicans rank Bush first and Gore last, voters might wake up the next
> morning with a surprise winner—Ralph Nader, say, or Pat Buchanan—thanks to
> all the second-place votes. The system would clearly take some getting used
> to. (The problem of insincere voting was pointed out to Borda himself. His
> response was characteristic of a more optimistic age: “My system is only
> for honest men.”)
> 

May the Best Man Lose [2]

Alternative methods of voting than simple majority or plurality.

[1] http://208.245.156.153/archive/output.cfm?ID=907
[2] http://discover.com/nov_00/gthere.html?article=featbestman.html

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