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TheUniverse Donating Member (954 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 11:17 AM
Response to Reply #41
44. We don't have to switch to Parliament.
Edited on Sun Feb-24-08 11:19 AM by TheUniverse
Switching to a numbered voting system or a instant runoff would be good enough. I believe that for the Senate, it would be a state by state issue so that probably wouldn't require an amendment. For the president, yes it will probably require an amendment which would be tough. But you know what, all amendments are tough and they all seemed like a distant dream 10 or 20 years before they were passed. The important thing is to start a movement for election reform, which I think is far more beneficial than bashing third party candidates.


And if I remember correctly Perot did lead in a few polls and would have been a viable candidate if he didn't start acting crazy towards the end.
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