Hey all, This list system as u call it is certainly Not suited to a multi cultural, muti religion place like India; where all sorts of ideologies, liberal, fascists etc come up. It is definitely not conducive to minority rights 'protection' either. It can and will lead to Brutes' majority Rule and suffocation of the Minorities! Nascy Caldeira
________________________________ From: Tony de Sa <tonyde...@gmail.com> To: "Goa's Premiere Mailing List, Estd 1994" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Sent: Saturday, 3 March 2012 7:08 PM Subject: [Goanet] The list system In our present day electoral system, Parties field candidates for the Assembly./ parliamentary seats. The candidates need not be only party candidates, but may also be independents owing/ not owing allegiance to any party. Some nations prefer the List System. In the list system, parties as a whole contest for the elections. At the time of nomination, the party fields a list of candidates which is not more than the total number of seats in the house. The candidates are listed in order of preference. At the polls, the voters vote for the party of their choice. The number of seats won by the party is proportional to the number of votes polled. If the elections to the Goa Assembly were conducted on this basis for the 40 seats and say BJP got 52.5 percent of the vote and say Congress got 35 pc of the vote and the rest (i.e. 12.5 p..c) went to Trinamool, then each party would have the following numbers of candidates in the Assembly: BJP 21 seats, Cong 14 seats and Trinamool 5 seats. Thus the Assembly would comprise of the first 21 from the BJP list, first 14 from the Cong. list and first five from the Trinamool list. The List system is followed in Israel. Here the issues are more simple. One votes for a party ideology. One gets the benefit of the best candidates of the various victorious parties. -- ** "Tony de Sa" < tonydesa at gmail dot com > ** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------