Is only one election enough to decide a government position?

[Pedrunn]

The current constitution draft has a section which says

CTP2DG Constitution
(j) If no candidate for office receives more than 50% of the vote, there shall be a run-off election between the two candidates who received the most votes.
(k) The Court shall, immediately the first election poll expires, create a run-off poll between the two candidates who received the most votes. The winner of this poll will be declared the new holder of the office for which he was a candidate.

If you think that only one election which the most voted citizen will be declared the new holder of the government position is enough vote yes.
If you think that a run-off election between the two candidates who received the most votes in the first election is needed if the mosted voted candidate didnt received more than 50% of the votes say No.

The advantage of having a single election polls is that every citizen wont have to vote twice which some may thing boring and the time spent with the election process will be half of the needed with two polls (each election will last 3 to 5 days, TBD).

The advantage of having two election polls is to make sure that the majority of the community agrees with the most voted candidate.

So is only one election enough to decide a government position?

[Ãskallin]

Yes!!

Yes absulutly i don´t got the patience to vote
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this is the highest number in the world (i think)

[Pedrunn]

So how come you voted no?
I was the one who voted yes!
Locutus...!!!

this is the highest number in the world (i think)

Of course it isnt! That number is too big

[H Tower]

dear god, if we had run offs for every position of the government, there would never be an end to all the polls

[Immortal Wombat]

dp

[Immortal Wombat]

Pedrunn, shouldn't this poll be titled with "official" or "unofficial" ?

[J Bytheway]

Re: Yes!!

Originally posted by Ãskallin
this is the highest number in the world (i think)

10^557, If I count correctly... Any particular reason you chose that? I could understand 10^600, because I think that's one of the largest numbers for which there is a word in English (centillion, although in the American system a centillion is 10^303 - good evidence that the American system is silly, IMHO). Voting in that many polls, even with a very fast connection, is probably not possible without significant life extension.

[Gilgamensch]

Hi Pedrun,

I think you are missing an option here.......

Take the case about the poll, where we were supposed to choose our name and it ended up tied?

What do you want to do with those?

You can only have a rerun on those.

So I vote for option 4: No rerun in case of 'normal' majority...... Meaning: One option has more votes then the rest......

[Ãskallin]

It is the highest one. This was (on icelandic) kvartillion. that might be translated as quartillion a number with 600 numbers behind the first (read it in a world record book

[centrifuge]

Well, to take this off-topic a bit further, I'd say that infinity is the largest number in the world ...and no one say that infinity + 1 is higher because that is still equal to infinity

Oh, and one election should be plenty except in the case of a tie or shady dealings.

[Maquiladora]

The Universe is deathless, because having no finite self it stays infinite. A man by never being an end in himself,
he endlessly becomes himself.

I voted yes.

[Locutus]

Re: Re: Yes!!

I vote for yes, on the condition that there *will* be a rerun between the canditates with the most votes if it's a tie...

Originally posted by J Bytheway
10^557, If I count correctly... Any particular reason you chose that? I could understand 10^600, because I think that's one of the largest numbers for which there is a word in English (centillion, although in the American system a centillion is 10^303 - good evidence that the American system is silly, IMHO). Voting in that many polls, even with a very fast connection, is probably not possible without significant life extension.

You sound suspiciously much like Data, from ST:TNG

Centrifuge,
Sure, except that infinity is not actually a number

[Pedrunn]

I am talking about election poll and not any poll.
For those who asked about the tie. There is a way to deal with already. Here what the current constitution article say.

CTP2DG Constitution
(l) In case of a tie the Court should count the number of times each candidate was part of the government. The candidate with lesser number of times in the government is chosen. If the tie persists the candidate who has been registered on Apolyton for the longest period of time will be chosen. If the tie still persists, the Court will decide which candidate is chosen.

Of course this can be always changed even include re-runs but it is a totally different section.

Centrifuge,
Sure, except that infinity is not actually a number

Are you sure!?!

[Maquiladora]

Isnt infinity actually an "amount"? Its the largest value that can actually be made, and not an actual number itself.


(Can you tell i have no idea what im talking about?)

[Locutus]

Pedrunn,
Of course that section would have to be changed - it was written under the assumption that there would be a second round in case of a <50% majority.

Maq,
Not sure how to mathematically define an 'amount'. I know infinity (edit: argh, stupid thing won't display my infinity sign) is used to define limits and stuff like that, but it's not a number. Limits are not numbers, merely approximations of numbers. If you say that qualifies as an 'amount', I guess it is. I for one am not knowledgeable enough in either English or math to be able to say so for sure