> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:08:40 -0400 > From: "Warren Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Election-Methods] PR favoring racial minorities > (Gilmour/Dopp?) > and while PR-STV has been tried, it plainly has NOT > led to tremendously representative legislatures. > > Instead it is based on the mathematical theorem that > if people vote in a racial manner, then if X percent of people vote > black, and enough > black candidates are available, then we get X percent > black winners.
And this theorem while it may sound believable at first glance is instead of course obvious mathematical nonsense and easily rebutted with any one of a countable infinite number of counterexamples. Cheers, Kathy ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
