04/14/02 - Partisan and Non-Partisan: St�phane Rouillon wrote:
"First what do you mean by a partisan or non-partisan election (for me any election is partisan except if all voters want to submit a blank ballot)?" Dear St�phane, A partisan election is an election in which almost all the candidates will be running under the banner of one party or another. A non-partisan election is an election in which, by law, no candidate is allowed to run as a member of a party even if he is a member of a party. This came about in America because candidates of local elections were not running on local issues, but instead were running on State, Federal, and even international issues, that is, running on issues that they will not need to deal with (if elected). Because local issues were not being addressed in the local elections, the public had no idea as to how a local candidate would deal with local issues, if at all. Anyway, the distinction needs to be made between partisan and non-partisan because some election methods are only suited for partisan elections. Regards, Donald Davison, host of New Democracy at http://www.mich.com/~donald Candidate Election Methods +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ | Q U O T A T I O N | | "Democracy is a beautiful thing, | | except that part about letting just any old yokel vote." | | - Age 10 - | +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ APV Approval Voting ATV Alternative Vote aka IRV Instant Runoff Voting aka IRVing FPTP First Past The Post aka Plurality NOTA None of the Above aka RON Re-Open Nominations STV Single Transferable Vote aka Choice Voting aka Hare-Clark aka Preference Voting aka Hare Preferential Voting Please be advised that sending email to me allows me to quote from it and/or forward the entire email to others. ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
