The alternative, seldom elected, is a brief monologue, bleak and bitter, from the original version of 1847.
Unlike the single-transferable-vote method used in places such as Ireland and Malta, where each constituency elects multiple members, districts using the alternative method elect only a single candidate.
Shareholders can withhold their vote, but, instead of needing a majority of shareholders, most firms need only one vote from one friendly shareholder to ensure a director's election.Other than pleading with the board, the only way shareholders can hope to get alternative candidates elected is to mount a "proxy fight".
Mr Aushev later learnt that his son and nephew were taken to the mountains to be executed with snickers (explosives tied to their bodies) but at the last minute they were let go.Unable to convey their anger through the ballot box and unwilling to take up arms, Mr Aushev and several others have set up an alternative parliament elected by family clans.
Because they didn't have an alternative, they elected a parliament without a clear majority.
As an alternative, we elected to stratify all subjects by baseline Ham-D score and redo the repeated measures analysis for each sub-group.
Additional research is needed to assess health status outcomes among women electing alternative approaches to prenatal care.
But one alternative - directly electing each local authority representative - might not appeal to either politicians or voters.
Mr Brown, cannily but a little opportunistically, has got there before you, proposing a double referendum on a change to the "alternative vote" system for electing the House of Commons, and a House of Lords elected by "an open-list proportional representation electoral system".
Readers discuss alternative ways to elect a president, such as direct popular vote.
