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...current system of electors maintains one important attribute: it builds a theoretical majority coalition out of a plurality of votes. This, in turn, strengthens the institution of the presidency by bestowing upon the 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...
...advantages to an IRV election are plentiful. Besides guaranteeing a majority winner, it gives voters the ability to express a clearer statement of their political views. Citizens on the fringes of the political spectrum would not have to settle for a candidate too moderate for their tastes; instead, they could cast their first vote for the candidate of their choice—and still have their second-choice vote count should their first choice be eliminated. Furthermore, when the winner of an election examines the vote total, the breakdown of his or her rankings will reveal the extent...
...live with either outcome but dread an Uncivil War. As the warnings of chaos grow more dire, they could be forgiven for caring less about who wins this election than about how he wins and when. A TIME poll finds that 48% of Americans believe that an illegitimate winner may prevail; 56% are ready to abolish the Electoral College. "A certain amount of shenanigans is standard. But it'd be really nice to know who the next President is by Thanksgiving," says Ted Jelen, chairman of the political-science department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "I just...
Conventional wisdom holds that if most states go just as they did in 2000, the 2004 winner must take two of these three: Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio. But Bush could take one and win by snagging Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa; Kerry cou prevail by taking one plus Colorado and New Hampshire...