David Brauer raised good questions about the switch to city election year delegate elections. I think we have to keep the precinct aspect to the current system because it preserves geographic fairness. Not only could a heavy turnout precinct "swamp" a ward, you could swamp a ward with just people from a single apartment building. And if you think people attack the endorsement system now, just imagine what they could say then! The second question was about electing city delegates at the ward convention... that would make the ward conventions a lot more interesting, especially in wards where there is no contest. To me, though, if we are concerned about the 2000 delegate set being "stale," we should be at least as concerned about the lack of redistricting in the wards this year. We did it in 1981 (and just had the ward conventions later); it was not an issue in 1991 as the council members were not up that year. But waiting until 2005 for the 2000 census? We should try harder. Don Jorovsky, New Brighton Attended every Mpls City Convention since 1977; can't go to this one due to a family wedding _______________________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
