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Originally Posted by erol
the party with the most votes would still win the election - it's just they would not be able to swagger around thinking they had a mandate from the majority of the electorate, if more people had said 'none of the above' than voted for the winning party. It _might_ bring a bit of humility to them and mediate their behviour. Least thats how I see it.
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Nice idea, but I don't think it would work that way. There's no humility in politics (I feel anyway) - I'm sure they'd still see it as a 'storming victory' - because they still got more votes than the other parties. The only way it would work would be for 'none of the above' to be a valid result - and that no one be in power. That's the only way they would ever listen.
...but it comes back to my question of what you would do if there was no clear winner. A coalition of political parties? - each one having a voice - no matter how distasteful it might be (a la BNP) - the 2 strongest forming a coalition?
Does anyone else have any ideas?