--- On Wed, 24/12/08, James Gilmour <jgilm...@globalnet.co.uk> wrote:
> The myth that single-member-district voting systems > "work well" for assembly elections when there are > only two parties in very > persistent. We must all work together and do everything we > can to kill it off because it is just a big, big lie > promoted by those > with vested interests in maintaining the status quo. Ok. I of course don't want to claim that single-member-district voting systems would work particularly well, and even less that they would be good in electing assemblies. I don't want to claim that two-party systems would be useless but I do think than multi-party systems work better (and are an option for two-party countries too). (As discussed in a recent mail) I very much support the idea of finding new approaches that help breaking the status quo related problems both in two-party and multi-party systems (they are worse in two-party). Juho ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info