At 07:08 AM 11/17/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I was originally thinking of something similar, where a candidate >has to be in a voting pact that is approved by a majority.
A majority of what? By what means? Is it secret ballot? How is it determined who can vote? If voters, by a majority, decide to vote a certain way, does this bind a minority to vote that way? I doubt it! Yet the examples, consider, as performance on the promise, votes showing that a majority would *not* have approved the pact, unless possibly they wanted to deceive the majority. Parties with secret ballot afterward, in real elections, resemble Free Associations in that they have no power to enforce discipline on the members. They can make decisions by majority vote -- this is what parties actually do -- and then, if they have not considered the minority, the minority simply ignores the party choice. ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
