On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Alex Small wrote: > Dave Ketchum said: > > If I really wanted to broaden the field, I might get into ways for the > > people being represented to control who got to be officials, and > > when officials got replaced, WITHOUT doing elections. > > Here's a simple scheme along those lines. Surely it can be improved, and > as set forth it's only for legislatures, but it's a way to proceed. > > Each eligible voter has one vote. At any time he can give it to any > representative or would-be representative that he wishes to. As long as a > representative has a certain threshold of support he retains his seat in > the legislature. > > Proportionality is achieved because as soon as a group gets enough people > on board to elect one representative, it will start recruiting voters for > another. Groups will add representatives until they've maxed-out. > > Recall is simple: If enough voters withdraw support from one > representative and transfer it to another the representative loses his > office. Maybe there could be a grace period, so that he has a certain > interval of time to regain support before losing office. But that's a > detail. >
How about this: in any given week you can transfer one third of your vote from one representative to another, so it would take three weeks to make a complete transfer. Forest ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info