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Sources: Boston Globe, Business Wire, Chicago Tribune, Computerworld, corporate reports, PR Newswire, proxy statements, San Francisco Business and Security and Exchange Commission filings...
COMPLEXITY, however, is the the singlebiggest problem with using PR in modern elections,Bigelow says. People have a hard time marking thepreferential ballots, she says, and few peopleknow how votes are actually counted...
...usually exaggerated to say it's acomplicated system," says Liphart. "If the averageAmerican can understand all these baseballstatistics and stuff, then the average Americancan under stand PR...
Says Zimmerman, "Proponents of PR argue thatunderstanding how the ballots are counted is notthat important. You don't have to worry about howyour watch works as long as it tells the time...
...many people understand how the ElectoralCollege works?" he asks. "That one doesn't workvery well as far as I'm concerned. PR is muchbetter...