(note: IRV and IRV+/ranked pairs are functionally equivalent for encouraging peaceful politics)
1- I thought that Iraq has more of a parliament than a legislature, regardless of what it is officially called. The neo-cons try to mislead at every opportunity. 2- If they had an IRV-elected president, the leading candidates and winner would be leaders for peace. Even if they had just a had a few IRV-elected regional representatives, that would also help moderate the partisan PR-elected representatives. 3-Regardless, the point is that IRV democracy fosters peace. I did not say anything about PR. The fact is that what they are using (PR) is very partisan and does not help bring peace at all, obviously. PR elects extremists. But if Iraq starts using district representation like the U.S., AND using IRV, then the most possible # of people will be represented by EFFECTIVE politicians with broad non-partisan support. Broad majorities will prevail while extremists will learn to compromise. Using PR in Iraq basically poured gasoline on their competitive ethnic issues. The Neo-cons don't give a rat's ass if Iraq breaks up and becomes a terrorist-breeding war zone for 20 more years, so they set-up a PR system. Since peace-oriented moderates have no influence in that system, citizens would had no incentive to vote for them anyway, so the neocon-sponsoring military contractors can expect to maximize their profit as Iraqis export the war around the world. I understand there are PR supporters on this list. I found a detailed history of PR in America: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/polit/damy/articles/kolesar.htm also linked here: http://prhistory.4IRV.net It can be predicted that Iraqis will eventually reject most PR the same way Americans did, so it would be best to encourage IRV/IRV+ ASAP. _____________________ On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 16:03 +0000, IRV Alliance wrote: > To the ELection-methods list: > The importance of this theory is that IRV or IRV+/Ranked Pairs > (IRV+ refers to "condorcet" in this message) elections should be used > in Iraq ASAP to quickly start empowering the leaders who can build > broad coalitions. ________________________ > How is IRV or Condorcet going to be useful in Iraq when the only elections there seem to be for the legislature, and they use proportional representation? Are there even any single winner elections? > Thanks, Scott Ritchie Is Open-vote a website or what? ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
