Latest Answers http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/latest/%2A/481/%2A/%2A a view of answers sorted by date en <p>One of the problems you have if your goals is democracy is usually runoffs, the history of runoffs, is they produce less people voting in a runoff elections than we&rsquo;re voting in a regular election. So that people have won runoffs getting fewer votes than they had coming second in a regular election.&nbsp; So if your goal is actually expanding the so called democratic process, runoff elections both in the United States and France have not demonstrated they actually do that. You got to come up with a better way than that.</p> http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/%2526lt%3Bp%2526gt%3Bone-problems-you-have-if-your-goals-democracy-usually-runoffs%2C-history-runoffs%2C-the http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/%2526lt%3Bp%2526gt%3Bone-problems-you-have-if-your-goals-democracy-usually-runoffs%2C-history-runoffs%2C-the#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:38:08 -0500 amukherjee 1534 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org