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Networks Ignore 3rd Party Candidates

Posted by michael on from the business-as-usual dept.

freedomfighter writes "The major media networks have been willfully ignoring alternative voices in this presidential election, focusing only on the two major parties, Democrat and Republican."

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  1. Two replies by Antony-Kyre · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Re:Coordinated push for "Third Parties?"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Electoral_Colleg e talks about Maine and Nebraska. The state popular vote winner takes two electoral votes. Then the popular vote of each Congressional District takes that electoral vote.

    Re:IRV is BROKEN

    Instant Runoff Voting works like this. If no one gets a majority (50% + 1) of the vote, the candidate in last place is eliminated and their votes are transferred.

    Condorcet is the one that is flawed. You don't get to vote for the candidate you truly want. What happens when Democrats only choose their candidate, leaving all other pairings blank?

    I forgot, but I think I found it on Wikipedia. It was like five different tests to do to a voting system. None of our systems pass all five. I think the term is "monotonicity" for part of the five or something, but I just gave up searching.

    Another method that isn't heard too often is the Avy method, which is a branch off of IRV.

  2. Build it, and they will come... by HexaByte · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Be interesting, and they'll not ignore....

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    HexaByte - he's a square and a half!