Brian Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If they get 10% of whatever PR body, that's fine and there's no need > to augment that with anything else. > > For a single seat, I think the vast majority would be poorly served by > four years of office holding by a tiny majority. I'm even more scared > of tyrannies by minorities. (If you consider US non-voters and the > current absolutist power-politics, we already have that. Rule by a > quarter or less.) I think in all cases we're trying to move the > democratic process to be more democratic and better represent as many > people as possible. That's why we want an election method that can > find the compromise choice that serves 60% of the people when we might > otherwise get some faction's 40% or 41% choice.
Thank you for posting that. I had wanted to respond with something similar, but the best wording eluded me, and I think you did a much better job than I could have. ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
