On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Norman Petry wrote:
> That said, I think discussions here recently have been making _very_
> appropriate use of the list. [...] It makes sense to carefully
> analyse voting methods for flaws while the matter is still academic, so that
> all the hard work of convincing the publ
ht at the time, they would have
replaced the defective plurality voting rule they inherited from the British
when it would have been easy to do. Electoral Reformers in the U.S. would
not now be facing such a monumental task.
Norm Petry
-Original Message-----
From: Curtiss Brown <[EMAIL P
I speak only about the U.S.
Compute the gerrymander math of each state legislature. That is, the votes
for a bare majority of each house (both partisan and nonpartisan) as a
percentage of the total voters. Math will be around 25-30 percent.If
primary votes are used of later general election
Folks:
It seems to me that there ought to be some sort of end to all this.
Some people get accused of not seeing the forest for the trees but this list
is discussing the holes in the bark of the upper branches.
Maybe I was naive, but I subscribed to this list to get some ideas
on
