Good Morning, Raph
Thank you for posting my letter.
I suspect we are seeing the process differently. In my view, candidates
can only stand for election in a single district and the only candidates
the electorate will consider are those seeking election from their
district: I'm Honest Joe,
Good Morning, Raph
I think that description is close to a sound system. Something not too
different may be proposed in a community in England later this year. I
have a draft of the petition I can send you, if you'd like to see it.
Fred
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On 9/9/08, Michael Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I cannot take any of you seriously. Are you all suspending disbelief
for the sake of the argument? I agree with your ideals, but there's
an element of unreality in proposing to restructure a legislature by
design. Like in Brian's
On 9/9/08, Fred Gohlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I suspect we are seeing the process differently. In my view, candidates
can only stand for election in a single district and the only candidates the
electorate will consider are those seeking election from their district:
I'm Honest Joe, and
Whoops!
It was your entire post of Mon Sep 8 03:44:51 PDT 2008
I didn't cite it because I was responding to the entire post, which follows:
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One option is to select the legislature at random. Stratified random
sampling would yield a highly representative legislature. The
population
Although it may be off-topic for a VOTING method list, I have long
advocated a greater use of sortition (the selection by lot) to select
legislators (perhaps one chamber of a bicameral legislature?) Having
served ten years as a state legislator in Vermont, USA, I can assure you
all that
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Fred Gohlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whoops!
It was your entire post of Mon Sep 8 03:44:51 PDT 2008
I didn't cite it because I was responding to the entire post, which follows:
Ahh, no problem.
The issue is that I have made various suggestions in recent
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Terry Bouricius
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The experience and excellent work of the Citizen Assembly
established by the provincial parliament in British Columbia a few years
ago is compelling evidence that elections may not be the key to genuinely
representative
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Aaron Armitage
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see a real philosophical problem with this. The whole point of having a
republic is so that the people can make public decisions in common. Any
chamber which is not subject to popular control is therefore
