On Jun 2, 2008, at 1:58 , Fred Gohlke wrote:
You apparently found aspects of my suggestion unacceptable.
I think that the Active Democracy / "groups of three based method" is
ok. I just pointed out that it does not guarantee full proportional
representation. There are however many kind of elections and not all
of them require strict proportionality.
Therefore, it seemed worthwhile to encourage the development of a
different approach.
The vote counting of the new proposed method used (conventional)
summing of the votes. I was expecting something more radical from
you :-), maybe in line with your "groups of three" style or in line
with the random ballot and other styles that I discussed. But the
nomination process is anyway something that clearly differs from
typical current methods and is very "bottom-up" as I'd expect from
you. The method seems to be quite open for anyone to become a
candidate.
The rules still seem to contain many options (not as carefully
thought yet as the Active Democracy method). They resemble Range
voting in the way how the given preferences are summed up. The
method also seems to have some elements of IRV in how the "order of
preference" was handled in the votes (it was not quite clear from the
explanation if this ordering was used to actually elect the
candidates or just check which ones are electable).
An aspect of Active Democracy that may have escaped notice is:
"The process is inherently bi-directional. Because each elected
official sits atop a pyramid of known electors, questions on
specific issues can easily be transmitted directly to and from the
electors for the guidance or instruction of the official."
Yes, this relationship is strong. The length of the contact chain is
relatively long because of the small size of the groups. Some
members of the groups may also not consider the elected member to
represent themselves. If the groups are formed geographically based
on where people live then the method will obviously create strong
"local representation".
Juho
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