Problems I forsee: 1. Not enough commonality of political culture.
2. Inadequate communications/media/reporting. Didn't Thomas Jefferson say something to the effect that he would prefer a free press with no democracy to a democracy with no free press? 3. Re Josef Stalin's remark "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything": Who would guarantee honest elections? The crooked regimes would not tolerate an honest election regime in their countries. It seems to me that honest electionms require that the entity guaranteeing the honesty of the election be sovereign (or politcally congruent with an honest sovereign entity) - unacceptable in a large part of the world. Ultimately we will need some kind of loose world government. I think the right route is by gradual coalescence around a tolerably free, honest, democratic and multicultural/multilingual soveriegn political entity - i.e. a development of the European Union. We will also need the United Nations meantime - one hopes improved, but the concept of a forum of sovereign states has weaknesses in this world. We will need not to have too high expectations of it. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Stephane Rouillon wrote: > It is slightly off topic but I am interested in hearing comments about this... > Could we put in place a world electoral system for a world parliament? > How to make it acceptable beyond one person one vote compared to the > actual difference of powers between countries? ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
