Very few votes are wasted. Instant Runoff Voting, a cousin of Choice Voting, is ideal for electing single-seat leaders like presidents or governors. The third-placers votes then are transferred to each voters second choice until a candidate emerges with a majority. To find out more, search this Web site, or read Tyranny of the Majority, the 1994 classic by Lani Guinier. And watch what happens to the States' Choice of Voting Systems Act.
Children play soccer on a cracked asphalt field littered with broken glass and rusting auto parts.
Their teenage siblings use the burned remains of a building across the street as a drug market. Their parents spend most days at home, because the unemployment rate hovers around 75 percent. Barely 10 minutes' walk up the hill, the British government runs a bright, friendly employment center, its bulletin board filled with news of job openings and training courses. But Bawnmore residents don't dare visit the job center. It's in a Protestant neighborhood, and the Roman Catholics of Bawnmore are not welcome.