She's an actual church figure; she practices canon law, and she's often in Rome doing important churchy type things, and she would regard herself as an evangelist. But in Ireland that's very different ...
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Not one of those presidents was elected with a simple majority of first preference votes. Mary Robinson, widely regarded as our best president ever, didn't even a plurality of first preference votes!
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Instead they were elected based on "transfers": 2nd and 3rd preference votes from voters whose 1st and then 2nd choices were eliminated.
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We've had divisive candidates, Dana Scalon comes to mind, a former star (she sang for Ireland at the Eurovision) who ran on a platform of strong support for "traditional values". She got 2.9% of the vote.
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How did you actually make this happen? My country just had its 2nd try at presidential elections and both times it worsened rifts in society. We have 2 round system. I don't see how to persuade people in power to change to ranking/alternative voting system.
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