[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems similar to informal voting in Australia. Apart from the mistake > made initially > (joined the outfit) conditions could be equated to a penal colony.
As Thomas Beale has pointed out, in order to make the slightest sense of the numerators in an election, you need everyone included in the denominator. Ensuring that requires legislative compulsion, and the experience here in Australia proves that the sky does not fall in as a result. Lessons for health MPIs there. And I agree with Thomas about problems with non-proportional representation inherent in Westminister-style lower house electoral systems. We do have proportional representation for the State and Federal upper houses here in Australia, and the Greens do get some seats as a result (thank goodness). Tim C
