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[dr_tectonic]

I voted! I am now officially excusing myself from being informed for the rest of the week (or as long as I can manage, anyway).

I found that the toughest question for me was actually about whether the mayor of Broomfield should break tie votes for the 10-member city council. As it's set up currently, ordinances can only pass by a 6-4 vote. So the question is basically, which do you value more: the local government being able to make decisions with relative ease and speed, or the local government needing to develop strong agreement before it can make changes? I ended up going with the status quo, but it was hard.

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[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, winner-take-all => two-partiness really applies much more to multiple-seat elections, like legislatures and such. That said, I think that the electoral college system does interact with the overall dynamics of two-party division in legislative elections to reinforce it.

And since it failed by a pretty wide margin, it's all academic anyway.