On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Brian Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But hey, follow your passion. There are plenty of good things to do and we > should do them all and I think we're most effective when we're working on > what we personally care most about and in coalition with the right allies > even if they're focusing on different aspects of the movement.
Well, being Irish, I don't have to do anything, since we already have PR-STV :). Though if I was bothered, maybe I would try to have the constituency sizes increased. However, that is also sorta happening automatically too. Gormley is the Minister for the Enviroment (responsible for setting the election boundary guidelines) and Green Party (i.e. a small party) leader and he has modified them so that the constituency commission should aim for larger constituencies for the council elections. Some of the supporters of the larger parties have called it "Gormley-mandering" ... because more proportionality is clearly evil. Ofc, they officially object to the loss of local representation (which moving from a 3 seater to a 5 seater clearly weakens). > I'm still going for changing single-winner election methods as the biggest > change, and likely biggest bang-per-buck we can get out of changes to work > on. Hopefully, improved electoral methods would help dull the benfits of gerrymandering and increase the risks. The majority party in a two party system have a large incentive to gerrymander as its members are guaranteed to win the gerrymandered districts. Given that voters would have more power to remove legislators with better voting systems, this is potentially higher risk as it makes your party look dishonest. Also, if no party has an outright majority it becomes harder still. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
