rank voting
rank voting would be a really nice experiment to try. but it's anathema to our two party system. so it's unlikely we'll ever get to try it. bush, clinton, and perot are running for president. you'd like to vote for perot. but you're afraid of wasting your vote and letting that dirtbag clinton win. ah but if we had rank order voting, you could vote for perot. you rank your votes in this order: perot, bush, clinton. count the top ranking votes as if it were a normal election. if the dirtbag gets over 50% of the votes then it didn't matter who you voted for. rank order voting doesn't hurt. but if he only gets 43% and bush gets 37% and perot gets 19% then rank order voting kicks in. you take the ballots for perot and give them to the next higher ranking candidate. bush would win the election if he gets enough secondary votes from perot. it's like having run-off elections without actually having a run-off election. why would we go to the trouble? so we can have a greater selection of representatives to choose from. instead of having this stupid paralyzed east/west/north two party system.