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Name :   Danny Kleinman
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Post Date :   9/30/2005

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Comment :  Here, I suggest, are some desirable criteria for such a voting system.

(3) No Guesswork.  It might be argued that under the current American voting system, every voter does have a say.  That is, a supporter of Buchanan isn’t required to vote for him.  A voter who can predict how other voters will vote may realize that a vote for Buchanan will be “wasted” when the real contest is between Bush and Gore, and can have a say in the real contest by voting for that “front-runner” whom he views as the “lesser evil” candidate: in this example, presumably, Bush.  If, however, the level of support for Buchanan approached the level of support for Gore and Bush, Buchanan supporters would face an insoluble dilemma: to vote for Buchanan only to have Gore defeat Bush by a narrow margin; or to vote for Bush when Buchanan would have defeated both rivals if only all who favored Buchanan had voted for him.   Every voter should be able to vote his “conscience”; no voter should have to engage in such guesswork.