James Gilmour <jgilmour <at> globalnet.co.uk> writes: > If you really believe in democracy as representation of the people I don't see how you can support > any form of so called "proxy voting" in which you hand over this critical decision of choosing YOUR > representative(s) to a candidate or a party. The support for proxy voting on this list quite > literally amazes me.
Does it bother you that you can't make all decisions in government, but have to trust the person you elected to make them for you? It should, by that logic. In the system I proposed, you really aren't "handing anything over", because you can see, prior to voting, what each candidates' list is. The only difference between this system and a manually ranked one is that there are less variations to choose from. It is like when you go to McDonalds, and they offer a small, medium and large drink....do you complain that you can't get soemthing in between? In practice, I believe this system would eliminate 99% of the problems of plurality, while making the process of voting at most 5% more complex (although, actually I think it makes it less complex, because you no longer have a strong incentive to vote insincerely....in general you can pick the candidate you like the most and be done with it). -rob ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info