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Mike W's avatar

It was 2.5 hours?!? You made a Friday’s meeting seem like it was 30 minutes long… wild that it took so long the second time

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Daniel Pareja's avatar

It appears you erred about a pretty major detail of the voting; from that press release: "The system will allow for as many additional rounds of voting as are necessary to declare a winner, which requires a majority of delegates’ votes."

There's no top-two runoff, no questions of "what if people vote Present on the third ballot"; the balloting will proceed as it would at an old contested convention (or, these days, vote for Speaker of the House) with votes being taken and counted until one candidate has an absolute majority.

(I was about to pull up Germany's system for the election of the federal Chancellor and the state Minister-Presidents, which maybe would have been relevant if it were going to be a strict three-round system, but it appears it's not.)

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