Natapoff's ideas about electoral reform are little more than half-baked
opinions
dressed up as scholarly wisdom. He calls national popular vote
legislation like that
passed in Maryland unconstitutional, but anyone who reads the relevant
parts
of the Constitution will find that a very debatable
from the article:
Natapoff would count popular votes cast for any candidate
vote-for-vote for the state's winner: If Florida casts 6
million votes for all the candidates, its winner should receive precisely
6 million electoral votes plus the popular-vote equivalent
of two
Some delayed comments on MultiGroup.
On Apr 8, 2007, at 7:20 , Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
At 06:01 AM 4/7/2007, Juho wrote:
it is an imposed system that the party names are on the ballot at
all
That could also be called information
It is one particular kind of information, one which
On Apr 13, 2007, at 2:37 , Chris Backert wrote:
See this story from MIT News that begins: “If we want individuals
and small groups to have the democratic power to elect the
president fairly, we must score presidential elections by winner-
take-all states--not in a single giant national
On Apr 8, 2007, at 4:01 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This might be a stupid question but I was wondering if SociallyBest
exists at all, and if some day it will be found.
One approach to this question is to say that there is no such generic
function but the choices of the society should
