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...financial oligarchs and overshadowed his unpopular boss, who fired him in 2001. As head of the Our Ukraine opposition bloc, he has become a skilled political adversary, leading meticulously planned demonstrations and framing the election in stark, eloquent terms. "Our choice is very simple," he said just before the runoff. "Either we live according to the code of ethics of the criminal underworld, or we live like free and affluent people...
Vitter's ascendancy is owed in no small part to Louisiana's idiosyncratic election system, in which multiple candidates, including pols from the same party, run together in a scrum. If no one crosses the 50% threshold, the top two vote getters--regardless of affiliation--move into a runoff. Facing four Democrats in a crowded field, Vitter won outright, becoming the first Republican U.S. Senator from Louisiana since Reconstruction. A flap created late in the race when Vitter enclosed dollar bills in a mass mailing to potential voters did not seem to hurt...
...winner a legitimacy he would otherwise lack. (After all, no presidential candidate has received a majority of the popular vote since former president George H. W. Bush garnered a slim 53 percent in 1988.) Still, there is a superior solution that combines popular voting with a majority winner: instant runoff voting (IRV), in which voters rank candidates instead of just voting...
...instant runoff election—so-called because the majority winner is determined from a single round of voting—the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is eliminated from contention, and the voters who voted for this candidate have their second-choice votes awarded to remaining candidates. Successive eliminations and vote redistributions occur until there are only two candidates left, at which point one will have a majority of votes...
Alarmed by the possibility that Karzai might not win in the first round (experts say he would win a runoff against any single candidate), the President's supporters--including the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad--are scrambling to shore up votes. Senior Afghan officials, U.N. representatives and Western diplomats all claim that Khalilzad, an energetic Afghan American, is trying to induce several candidates--including the President's main rival, Qanooni--to drop out and throw their support behind Karzai. The ambassador denies that, even though one candidate, Mohammed Mohaqiq, went public with such an accusation. Khalilzad and Karzai dine...