In January we had a discussion about how to fill vacancies using STV/Choice Voting caused by resignation of a member partway through a term. A leading idea...
Question: what are some examples of places that fill vacancies using previous election data (as opposed to, say, appointing the replacement or holding a...
... Sorry for the confusion: I meant the quota for the general election. Ideally, the replacement would earn as many votes as the resigning candidate (and all...
Sure would be nice to have this electoral system in each of our 50 states, wouldn't it? No more districts, no more gerrymandering, any minority can elect a...
Hello, My name is Lee Mortimer. I live in Durham, North Carolina. I've been an election reform advocate for 25 years--since before I knew much about...
Lee and all, I think I should clarify that CVD has not directly suggested limited voting with a party option (a variant of the Finnish system with limited ...
Terrill Bouricius
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Jul 11, 2004 5:33 pm
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I like Terry's idea of "optional party voting", since it strikes me as almost identical to Party List PR. Unfortunately, it wouldn't work for California's...
Steve, I like your California approach. I'd like to see a simular approach taken here in Washington state. Tom Mull. ... From: steve.chessin@... To:...
None of this makes much difference if people aren't prepared to vote. I suspect the turnout to be dismal this year; the options as usual, a choice between bad...
If we are going to make wide use of two- or three-choice IRV, I believe that this method should be used in tandem with separate runoff elections. If there is...
A few points continuing my previous post (under the thread "Some ideas for discussion"): One of the main observations you can make about the results I posted...
... True, at least for this set of ballots, but how many people's first choice got elected is not necessarily the best metric. The whole point of proportional...
... I think the difference here is that MIRV avoids transfer to candidates who are above the quota (unless a ballot lists no other viable candidates) - a ...
Tinkering with the current system is doomed to failure. There are two groups in this country, those who consider changing anything for any reason to be...
I'm sorry, but how does creating "powerless, community advisory councils on the local level elected by proxy voting" empower John and Jane Q. Citizen? -David...
By powerless, I mean it will have no official authority to effect policy. However, a council with very broad public support, that can readily prove how...
... Well, in that you are correct, our current system doesn't inspire much confidence in the average American. However, I'm still confused: If you proposed...
You are correct that, when the council is first formed, "the existing local governments can ignore the council's recommendations and do as they have done...
From: Mike Hayes <hayesmike2002@...> I have just placed an Instant Runoff Voting poll at: http://www.demochoice.org/dcballot.php?poll=ILPres2000 Please...
For those of you interested, ASUCD did two "polls" on Choice Voting, with 800 students participating. The polls were initiated by the two senators trying to ...
It doesn't work without a password and login. ... From: "Chris" <jerdonek@...> To: <Voice4all@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 1:25 AM...
Newton County Engineer
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Jul 30, 2004 4:21 pm
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Didn't know about the off-campus password protect. Here are the two poll results cut and pasted --- ... Choice Voting Poll Results from 05-26-04 to 06-04-04 Do...
Here's the relevant part of the Davis City Council resolution, on the consent calendar for next Tuesday: "PURPOSE - The Davis Governance Task Force shall study...
I vaguely remember hearing about a U.S. law that would limit the ability of the states to use proportional representation in national elections. I am not sure...
... Yes - it would be a lot of work to achieve PR for US House seats. However, this law does not restrict its use in state legislatures, city councils, etc....
... This was passed to prevent segregationist states from creating at-large districts in order to block geographically-concentrated minority voting power....
Thank for all your help. It's something I can use to increase peoples disgust with the D & R political parties. I also try and point out that other nations...
Are you suggesting that it would probably not be constitutional to apply that law in a proportional system? If I have understood you correctly, that would be...
... apply ... correctly, ... feds ... large ... voting ... governments ... The purpose of the law was not to block PR, but to do what I mentioned. A...
I received this blurb in a longer email -- can anyone follow up to see if this is true? Interestingly, a separate study of voters released this week by AARP ...
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