Word: electorate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chun promised from the outset that he would serve only a single seven-year term as President. He agreed to open negotiations on a series of constitutional and electoral reforms. The parliamentary opposition, led by Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam (see following story), had as its main goal the abolition of South Korea's electoral college, a panel of more than 5,000 elected delegates that chooses the President. Instead, the opposition wanted direct elections for a chief executive. The electoral-college system favors the ruling party, according to its critics. Since an elector is allowed to change...
Your Essay on the Hobson's choice of presidential candidates [April 14] omits a viable alternative: optional preferential voting that gives electors a second or third choice. Fearful, for example, that a vote for a liberal third-party candidate would be wasted or would detract from Carter's tally and ensure a Reagan victory, a liberal elector is restricted to the choice between Carter and Reagan. A similar problem exists for conservatives...
With optional preferential voting, an elector who wants to can express a protest or an opinion through a third-party vote without this fear. If his candidate fails, the second choices expressed on the now excluded candidates' ballots are directed to the survivors...