On 9/4/08, Kristofer Munsterhjelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By what law? Since I'm not American, I'm not familiar with the law, and > thus I can't comment on whether this kind of indirect PR would be covered.
Warren covers it here http://rangevoting.org/PropRep.html I re-read what I said, and just to be clear, I meant that they can't use PR for electing their Representatives for Congress. They can presumably use whatever means they want for the State legislatures. In fact, perhaps, that might be a better (possible) first target. > The result could easily become a > bipartisan gerrymander, where the two parties reach agreement on border > divisions that keep their incumbents in office. Better would be to use > Iowa's solution, or to support PR on a local scale with an aim of > overturning the law once people get familiar with PR. This is why I was suggesting that each party must run 2 candidates in any district it is assigned. I think voters would be willing to vote out an incumbent if the system is abused. The incumbent (if he controls nomination) would need to appoint a candidate who he can beat, but not one who is obviously a poor choice. Maybe they could have an approval election in each district. Ballot access for the approval election would be easy. The top 2 most approved candidates then get ballot access for the main election. Is that legal? Would they also have to add a 'hard' way to get access? ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
