[Mpls] Proportional Elections -- Yes!

2005-03-17 Thread Steve Cross
I'm glad to see that I generated some interest in proportional elections although, so far, it seems to be less that the interest in IRV. Jeanne Massey argued, "IRV and PR are complementary, not at odds with each other." I'm sorry, you're going to have to explain this to me further because I ju

RE: [Mpls] Proportional Elections -- Yes!

2005-03-17 Thread Jeanne Massey
In reply to Steve Cross' arguments for Proportional Representation (PR). First, another clarification: The origin of IRV for municipal elections did not grow out of the idea of IRV for endorsements; it was the other way around. There is an effort around IRV for municipal elections and the idea of

[Mpls] Proportional Elections -- Yes!

2005-03-17 Thread Steve Cross
The issue on IRV started out on whether IRV should be used by the DFL in Ward 2 to deal with the multiple candidates and the prospect of a long convention. It transmogrified into whether Minneapolis should use IRV for all of its elections. Apparently several different camps are going to propo