The runoff vote, also known as the alternate voting system.

[Benton]

(08-18-2016, 12:07 PM)fredtoast Wrote: But the whole point of my plan would be for the minorities to still get a shot at having a representative by not just taking the first place finisher.  If all the rural voters selected the same guy then he should finish in the top 6 of the vote and still be elected.

Kentucky (and I realize it varies by states) has such different rural communities. People in the western end have a very different lifestyle from the eastern end. Different industries, education problems, economies. Someone from Pike or Breathitt counties yammering about coal doesn't mean as much to somebody west of Bowling Green. Likewise, someone talking about the need to save the uranium enrichment plant in the western end isn't going to go over in coal country, where they don't care about the jobs lost.