Meta election final list.

[Charles Fiterman]

Honesty
Proven fraud magnets like written ballots and slow
counts are excluded.
Secrecy
You vote in secret. Your community votes in secret.
Simplicity
Its easy to understand the system. Half the voters
are below median I.Q. and 10% are in the bottom tenth.
You can't exclude them.
Openness
Easy access to the system.
Convenience
In and out quickly.
Pervasiveness
Lots of elective offices.
Decisiveness
The system returns an answer it doesn't demand a run off
or another election.
Participation
People are encouraged to vote by some mechanism but not at
gun point.
Accuracy
Votes can be balanced several ways.
Equality
No gerrymandering, high ballot access restrictions or
disenfranchised citizens.
The most unpopular candidates lose
Being hated is more bad than being loved is good. e.g. if
some stand will make 5% of the people hate you and 5% love
you it should be a mistake to take that stand.
The most acceptable candidates win
The people with the broadest acceptance win even if they
aren't the most loved. They do after all have to run things.
Make it hard to do bad things.
Some actions such as restricting free speech require a super majority
and a slow process. Tyrants face special problems, term limits etc.
Charles Fiterman Geodesic Systems
414 North Orleans Suite 410 Phone 312 832 1221 x223
Chicago IL 60610-4418 FAX 312 832 1230
http://www.geodesic.com

http://www.il.lp.org/html/1998candidates.html

"Augusts began a campaign to promote traditional family
values with fines for adultery. But he was famous for his
adulteries often seducing the wife and daughters of the same
man. Towards the end he became obsessed with deflowering
virgins and they were brought to the palace as young as
seven." Suetonius