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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @BallLightning 17 Jun \ on: Would you Join Musk's America Party? Politics_And_Law
Can you USAians implement some kind of runoff elections like many other countries have?
Very good question. They do not. And at state level it can be implemented to elect senators for example, but very few do.
It's worth noting that while Argentina do implements runoff for presidential elections, it seldom occurs and it's strategically avoided by voters themselves, since the current legislation recognizes as the winner that party with enough advantage over the second in despite of not achieving an absolute majority (only if that margin is not met a runoff follows), establishing the permanent risk that "if you do not vote for the candidate with best chances in front of the one you do not like, you may allow the one you do not like to get enough of an advantage to win without runoff". So the voting logic for most of the population is in practice commanded by a two party system logic as in the USA.
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Hm... I don't know what the system there is, but generally runoff election requires the winner to get more than 50% of the votes. That means that even if you vote for the most obscure party, you are making the best performing party take less of the votes percentage wise. So you don't need to strategically vote for the lesser evil, as long as your favourite is in the ballot (which is before the actual runoff).
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Yes absolutely. I'm just pointing out the case of Argentina, as some arguments are made that "the same thing Milei did can't be done in America due to the two-party system", but our "runoff" is degraded with that "margin rule" that brings the two-party logic back.
If taken by the proper definition, as you suggest, yes, it would be an ideal system for both countries. Sadly, none of both have it.
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