(brief comments and a question) Fred Gohlke said: > re: "Sponsoring is a separate topic." ... Absolutely not!!!! ... > Sponsorship is the heart of party power. Their ability to choose > and sponsor the candidates we are allowed to vote for gives them > control of the entire political process. ...
I agree. Maybe we could define the party as: (a) a *primary* electoral system (b) one that sponsors candidates for *public* office (c) where voting is restricted to *private* members > We have the tools and the ability to conceive a non-partisan > electoral method. Let's start. Juho Laatu said: > Let's generate better methods. Are you sure that you don't want > parties even in the sense that there would be ideological groupings > that people could support? Or in the sense that there would always > be an alternative to the current rulers. Imagine waving a wand and eliminating (c), the restriction of primary voting to private members. What effect would it have on the parties? What effect on the official elections? -- Michael Allan Toronto, +1 416-699-9528 http://zelea.com/ ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info