He rather better demonstrates why the US would be better off with at least optional 2nd preference Instant Run-off voting (aka preferential voting in Australia).


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

I stopped reading the NYT (and realised it was not a "liberal" newspaper when it ran an editorial askking Nader to pull out of the election on the grounds that "what the American people deserve is a clear-cut race between two candidates" and "anything else is not true democracy".

Then in 2004 the Democrats spent more effort trying to keep Nader off the ballot than debating the Republicans on policy.

Any country where ballot access and voter registration are issues is not a functioning democracy.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides