Letters to the Editor
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Been wondering about this for years
had_enough writes: "The next article: how do we get fairer election processes adopted?"
Beats me. It's hard to see how it's possible, given that pretty much all of these potential improvements to our voting scheme will need to be ratified by major-party candidates who are mostly happy with things as they are, thank you very much. Most of the proposed changes can't help but reward the Dennis Kuciniches and Ron Pauls and Mike Gravels of the world, and lord knows we can't have that.
One bright spot is that the individual states do have a choice in how their voting works. You can almost envision, say, Vermont taking on the experiment, and others following suit. Almost.
I'm not giving up on the idea, and I'm looking forward to reading Mr. Poundstone's thoughts. Thanks to Salon for highlighting this book.