I, too, am a lay observer of this discussion, and would like to second these questions, with an emphasis on the "understandable" part. I am one of those uneducated voters you speak of. --R.V., Student East Lansing, MI >From: "JanetRAnderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [EM] >Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 08:47:02 -0700 > >May I interrupt your discussion for a moment to ask a couple of questions? > >(I currently chair Washington Citizens for Proportional Representation and >I >believe this list began from our Web site. I have been a silent member of >the list for the last couple of months, just to see what was going on.) > >I am disturbed by the negative references to CVD and the League of Women >Voters new national study. I am trying to influence the content of the >latter. Could you put in simple, layman's words (not formulas), what is so >bad about IRV for single winner offices? Are you so adamant in your >opposition that you will actively and publicly oppose any tiny steps toward >Choice Voting that those of us working in the education trenches try to >make? > >I am a teacher and strong supporter of STV. If there is something better, >that you can make understandable to me, and that I can help make >understandable to others, I'd like to hear about it on or off the list.. > Thank you. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Craig Carey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 11:02 PM >Subject: [EM] Papers are voters: asserting aspects of voters > > > > I ask subscribers to regard this as a puzzle that I haven't understood. > > Yet there seems to be little stated concern that the list is less than > > what subscribers might want or hope for. > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
