Basic Essay on Voting Systems

Nicholas Stryker
October 1, 2002+
Paper #2
There are three different types of voting systems. One is majority rule in which one must receive greater than fifty percent in order to win the election. The second is plurality which allows you to win an election with more votes than any other candidate without receiving more than fifty percent. The final voting system is proportionality which awards the political party seats equivalent to the number of votes received. Majority rule has survived as the fittest voting system in the United States.
Plurality has not survived as a system of vot…