How can the Green Party ever hope to succeed in a two-party winner-take-all system?
In Charlevoix County the second party is the Green Party. As noted above, the Democrats have no county-wide candidates. More generally, even if the Greens get a toehold here, it will still be difficult regionally and nationally. What is needed is structural change, whereby a majority candidate can be selected. This can be done with instant runoff voting (IRV). Under IRV, in an election like this one where three or more candidates may be on the ballot, voters would mark down their first, second, and third choices. If no candidate gets an absolute majority, results are recounted with the bottom-most choice discarded, except that the votes which were alloted to it are re-distributed according to the second choice indicated on each of those ballots. With machine voting IRV is not difficult to implement. • Did you really march with Dr. Martin Luther King? In the fall of 1966 Dr. King was living in Chicago where I was in graduate school. I got involved in a campaign, supporting a progressive
