Ajax wrote on Jan 14^th, 2017 at 12:41pm:




It needn't have failed or succeeded, the US is a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy the way we think about it

US Constitutional law takes precedence over voting trends, majority or minority. Our written law of preferential voting does the same thing

For anyone to say that the majority of the voters who voted, wanted Clinton as president, would be unwittingly or wittingly approving of a "First Past The Post" election system, which neither the US or Australia has adopted, Even preferential voting wouldn't satisfy these people because if Clinton had won an "Australian" style primary vote, she still could have lost on preferences. I'm reminded of an example here where Hanson lost to Boswell in Qld. Hanson won the primary vote but didn't win the seat

So therefore, given that our preferential voting system does a similar job to the US Electoral College, First Past The Post voting is the only system that would've allowed Clinton to win and become President

Preferential voting can wipe out a majority vote in Australia, and the Electoral College can wipe out a majority vote in the United States

First Past The Post voting, anyone?






Bias_2012 wrote on Jan 14^th, 2017 at 3:46pm: