Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
by Aloisius on Sunday July 21, 2024 @08:06PM
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It's a two-round voting system. It is, by definition, not FPTP.
There only functional difference between it and say, the original French two-round system that Maurice Duverger (of Duverger's law) contrasted with FPTP is that someone who wins an outright majority in the first election (an open "primary" in California) is not immediately elected.
The fact the main election is FPTP doesn't matter as there are only two candidates for a single seat - most voting systems degenerate to FPTP at that point.
There only functional difference between it and say, the original French two-round system that Maurice Duverger (of Duverger's law) contrasted with FPTP is that someone who wins an outright majority in the first election (an open "primary" in California) is not immediately elected.
The fact the main election is FPTP doesn't matter as there are only two candidates for a single seat - most voting systems degenerate to FPTP at that point.