David, please explain how single tranerraable vote works.
Dean Zimmermann
Commissioner District 3
Mpls Park and Recreation Board
Candidate for Mpls City Council, Ward 6
612-722-8768
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Shove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 4:04 AM
To: Melendez, Brian
Cc: 'Dean Zimmermann '; 'Richard McMartin '; 'Issues Minneapolis '
Subject: RE: [Mpls] Number of council members
Why would we want to give parties the power to rank candidates? Odds are
they'd be bought off or old-boy-networked off. And once again citizens
would be left to the tender mercies of corrupt party hacks.
How about *citizens* doing the ranking by their voting? STV (single
transferrable vote) does just that.
Parties and party bosses/hacks have failed us, miserably. Why roll over
and give them even more power? Are we masochists? Do we like being blown
off, screwed, written off, treated with contempt?
--David Shove
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Melendez, Brian wrote:
> About electing members to a representative body in proportion to
their
> parties' strength in the election, Dean Zimmerman wrote, "I believe the
> Parliament of the United Kingdom is elected in just such a way -- correct
me
> if I am wrong. Perhaps others know of where such a system is in place now
> and has a more detailed and specific description of how it works."
>
> The UK Parliament is elected in single-member constituencies by
> plurality, as is the US Congress. The system that I know of that is
closest
> to what Dean describes is the Swedish Riksdag, where each political party
> lists its candidates in an order, the voter votes for a political party
> rather than an individual candidate, and the candidates are elected off
the
> parties' lists in the order determined by the parties and the number based
> on the votes cast for each party. There is a fairly detailed description
of
> the system available online at
> http://www.agora.stm.it/elections/parliaments.htm.
>
> BRM
>
> Brian Melendez
> Ward 3 (St. Anthony West)
>
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