Reply to post: Re: He's wrong, of course. The system would fall apart within minutes..

Engineer uses binary on voting bumpf to flag up Cali election flaws

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Re: He's wrong, of course. The system would fall apart within minutes..

The minority tyranny you described is de facto democracy behaviour in many places.

e.g.#1 UK, try looking up UK election results and examine winning party % of votes cast (and for more fun % of eligible voters i.e. including non voters)

e.g. #2 UK Care to compare the influence the "average (wo)man on the street" has on politicians compared to big businesses, esp when cushy, well remunerated directorships etc. are there to be snaffled up.

e.g. #3 UK. Eton ... nuff said

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