How about this?
A Poll:
What did you think a "simple majority" meant at the time you voted?
Choice 1: 50% of the vote, + 1 vote
Choice 2: Whichever option have the most votes wins (even if there are three or more choices)
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Sophia Brooks - Mar 04, 2003 2:58:12 pm PST #6783 of 10001
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Anathema - Mar 04, 2003 2:58:12 pm PST #6784 of 10001
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OK, joking aside, we are really getting somewhere aren't we?
You have got to be joking.
John H - Mar 04, 2003 3:01:46 pm PST #6785 of 10001
What did you think a "simple majority" meant at the time you voted?
Choice 1: 50% of the vote, + 1 vote
Choice 2: Whichever option have the most votes wins (even if there are three or more choices)
OK.
But "50% of the vote, + 1 vote"? It's a little head-scratchy.
How about "Only options that get more than fifty percent of the vote win", contrasted with "The options that get most votes win".
Wolfram - Mar 04, 2003 3:02:59 pm PST #6786 of 10001
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What did you think a "simple majority" meant at the time you voted?
Without opening a can of worms, I think that the poll should just state the two "definitions" of simple majority and find out the buffista preference. This way the vote won't be closed to people who voted supermajority or didn't vote in the first election, and there won't be any complaints about people changing their minds.
Jon B. - Mar 04, 2003 3:03:03 pm PST #6787 of 10001
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In other words: those who want a 51% majority would be implicitly voting that, if there's no such majority, no action should be taken. No run-offs
Were there really people who believed this? That is there were three choices that received 40%, 35%, and 25%, that no action would be taken? The vote was for Majority vs. a Supermajority. I think folks expected that something would win, but I don't want to jump to conclusions.
I like Sophia's ballot, but that's cause it's pretty much what I said upthread. ;)
John H - Mar 04, 2003 3:03:09 pm PST #6788 of 10001
OK the plurals there are making me hate it.
How about "an option has to get more than fifty percent of the vote to win" and "whichever option gets the most votes wins".
Sophia Brooks - Mar 04, 2003 3:04:36 pm PST #6789 of 10001
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Nope, that is a good idea John.
So
What did you think a "simple majority" meant at the time you voted?
Choice 1:Only options that get more than fifty percent of the vote win (even if there are three or more choices)
Choice 2: Whichever option have the most votes wins (even if there are three or more choices)
Now, as Burrell has asked (several times) is this a Poll or a vote?
OK.
PaulJ - Mar 04, 2003 3:06:43 pm PST #6790 of 10001
Were there really people who believed this? That is there were three choices that received 40%, 35%, and 25%, that no action would be taken?
I have seen it suggested by at least one person, way upthread. I think it was DavidS, but don't quote me on that.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 04, 2003 3:07:03 pm PST #6791 of 10001
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What did you think a "simple majority" meant at the time you voted?
Choice 1: An option which recieves more than 50 % of the vote wins.
Choice 2: Whichever option has the most votes wins
§ ita § - Mar 04, 2003 3:07:19 pm PST #6792 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wait -- what if everyone who voted for a simple majority thought it was a) and everyone who voted against thought it was b)?