Category Archives: voting systems

Tweets Related To Revolution Against The US

Posted on April 25, 2024 by waughuspolitics

I will give the list below, but first, I will give a thought or two that I have on this. A voting system that accords the voters equality of influence would have revolutionary effect, because it would take away the … Continue reading →

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Discrimination Based On Political Position

Posted on April 7, 2024 by waughuspolitics

A voter should be the one to determine which candidates her or his vote supports and opposes. In an N-candidate election for a single seat or office, voters who want to oppose fewer than N – 1 are told to lump … Continue reading →

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Key Questions To Put To Political Candidates

Posted on March 29, 2024 by waughuspolitics

Where do you stand on:

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The risk of “Ranked-choice Voting” verbiage is too high

Posted on July 13, 2021 by waughuspolitics

The risk of “RCV” is too high. Here’s the chain of causation in reverse: starvation of 6 bn massive crop failure chaotic weather global overheating lack of attempt by gov’t to mitigate harms of global overheating continued plutocracy voters ranking … Continue reading →

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Discussion Forum on Theory of Voting

Posted on March 7, 2021 by waughuspolitics

https://www.votingtheory.org/

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Voting Systems for Democratic Representation

Posted on February 14, 2021 by waughuspolitics

The topics of single-winner and multiwinner elections merit separate discussions. For legislatures, multiwinner elections with Proportional Representation (PR) would make a very democratic representation. And some systems for achieving PR use ranking ballots. So, there are some uses and contexts … Continue reading →

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Vote on Voting Systems

Posted on January 17, 2021 by waughuspolitics

Watch the debate (1:21:35 — sorry about the length, but voting systems are important; do you want peoples’ representation, or continued buypartisanship?). Rate the voting systems in this poll. Vote for your favorite voting system in this other poll (even … Continue reading →

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Movement For Democracy In The US Divided and Conquered

Posted on January 10, 2021 by waughuspolitics

The movement for voting-system reform (or revolution) is tragically divided into two camps. One camp says, give us what we want in the single-winner case, that is the most important thing, and we won’t show any solidarity about seating legislators. … Continue reading →

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Equal Votes

Posted on April 18, 2020 by waughuspolitics

I used to propose at this web address, a single-winner voting system with multiple rounds of tallying. I no longer feel comfortable with that proposal, so I have withdrawn it. The spirit of “one person, one vote” includes that the … Continue reading →

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Math Applied To Exercise Power

Posted on April 15, 2020 by waughuspolitics

Most people have bank accounts. Accounting is a mathematical process that is well understood and taught under strict standards. It involves adding and subtracting, and keeping a balance, among other details. But a bank account is an example of how … Continue reading →

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