In the 2010 elections, more than half of its constituencies elected winners who did not win a majority of the vote and may well have lost if paired only against their top opponent.
In part because we're in the unique situation in which the president-elect, the winner of the election, is the one most publicly raising questions about the integrity of the outcome.
For the time being, though, the divided left has elected a winner already: its arch-enemy Silvio Berlusconi.
If Labour can't elect a winner, nothing will stop the Tory evisceration of public services and the welfare state.
More importantly, Mr Hague, who would be taking a large pay cut to do so, will in effect be demonstrating that he believes the Tories have elected a winner.
The 11 trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW, who chose the finalists, will also elect a winner, alongside a People's Choice award.
While the larger debate on this issue carries on — unlikely to ever yield a black-and-white verdict — this particular forum's audience (which numbered several hundred) elected a winner.
And, when elected, the winner should keep in mind this warning from Mr. Dole: "What people often forget is that the last laugh doesn't belong to the victorious candidate -- it belongs to the late-night comics".
Word has it, he says, that maybe Bart didn't win at all, that maybe there was some funny business played with the telephone voting that elected the winner.
" 'You and you only can keep Sunjaya around on 'American Idol,' " he added, referring to the widely mocked singer whom fans of Howard Stern and the Web site votefortheworst.com are trying to elect as winner in order to discredit the show — heckling on a mass scale, you might say.
