I will be on Thom Hartmann's show live Monday Oct 10th for about 10-15 minutes sometimes between 9:30am and 10am Pacific Time (12:30pm and 1pm Eastern Time) to...
Haven't seen these come through on the lists, so thought I'd share: 2 recent LTEs, 1 article (below) These along with five articles from last year on the UCLA...
I scanned Iraq's draft constitution to see what provisions it has for democracy and to see how it measures up with the United States's. (They're now counting...
The new electoral law apparently should be a good one -- party lists within regions rather than the national party list system that underrepresented Sunnis...
Note that eight of the top ten nations use proportional proportional voting for their most powerful legislature. A 9th (Austrarlia) uses IRV for the more...
Boy, that's a great peg for a series of op-eds, given the disgust over the DeLay-Abramoff affairs and the awakening many people are having after seeing how...
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Oct 18, 2005 9:21 pm
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Our program director David Moon (dmoon@...) crafted the following document briefly explaining how our voting system reform proposals speak to parts of...
http://www.parl.gc.ca/infoparl/english/issue.htm?param=171&art=1150 Canadian Parliamentary Review The Road to Electoral Reform Scott Reid, M.P. Electoral...
There are a couple charter amendment campaigns gearing up in Minnesota – one in Hopkins, the other in Minneapolis, plus varying degrees of interest in other...
I prefer STV 3 proposal, as pure STV ensures that those threshold groups who liked a candidate in excess of what is needed get a voice too... proposal 2 sucks,...
Anthony, did you mean to say you preferred the first option? I would go with the pure STV Option 1, for the reason Anthony stated. That's the version used in...
In Hopkins, why not discuss approval voting? If you're going to go with a majoritarian system for a multi-winner panel anyway, why not use the simplest and...
John Gear
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Oct 31, 2005 5:58 am
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Tony and all, I have a couple of comments, that are partly responses to Greg Dennis' response on this list (that the multi-winner and single-winner should not...
Tony & all, From working on the ground in Davis CA this summer, my strong suggestion is that, across the board, go with the best system – STV w/ fractional ...
I agree with what you are suggesting completely. I don't like the idea of throwing away the overvotes that exceed the threshhold, as then those people lose...
I am not a fan of leaving the language up to the powers that be... in Sarasota, FL, we drafted our own, but we are only doing IRV for the moment. Anthony...
Anthony and all, Would you and/or others who agree explain why you see leaving the details of IRV or Choice Voting/STV out of a charter or constitutional ...
[You would cross-post. :-) ] I find it hard to believe that your voters are dumber than the voters in British Columbia (who voted 58% in favor of STV with...
... (JBH) I strongly support Zo Tobi's view. Use the words "Proportional Representation", argue for the fairness of it, point out how it makes maximum use of...
Well, there are two mathematical reasons i see for not allowing the powers that be to determine the language themselves. With IRV, the reasoning is simple. ...
I have generally advocated brief charter amendments leaving details to regulations. This is true of both IRV and STV. Below is the IRV charter amendment that...
Terrill Bouricius
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Nov 1, 2005 4:22 pm
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I am still waiting to see a great tri-fold flyer about STV/PR to modify for our state, but we created one on IRV specifically to promote locally. We gathered...
But those elites are exactly the ones who can come to understand that something that's simpler on the surface (like just limited voting with one vote or...
I think Kirk's basic point is right that voters need some compelling reasons to vote for change. I just doubt whether any measurable number will vote for...
... I believe Zo preferred the language "Choice Voting" to "Proportional Representation." On the phrase "Proportional Representation" though, I think it's more...
Anthony and all, These are particular examples of ways in which the details of IRV or STV might be done wrong (or, at least, in a way that some of us would see...
I agree that most voters will only look at the periphery of this proposal (or any in depth election reform proposal like IRV and STV). I also want to share...
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