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Old 10-08-2008, 08:26 PM   #15
jay santos
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Originally Posted by BlueK View Post
It's a flaw because you think the one getting the 46% is not worthy to win because those other 10% somehow belong to the one getting 44%. I'm saying you can't so easily make that assumption.
Isn't this pretty simple math? If a third party candidate ever gets votes c such that c > a - b (votes for candidates a and b), it's very possible that a two man election could have provided different outcome.

It's happened in the past and it will happen in the future. It's a bad practice.
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