Krist Novoselic, chair of FairVote, has this Salon article, advocating cumulative voting, limited voting, and ranked-choice voting to defend representation for all minorities, ethnic, racial, and political.
Krist Novoselic, chair of FairVote, has this Salon article, advocating cumulative voting, limited voting, and ranked-choice voting to defend representation for all minorities, ethnic, racial, and political.
In 2012, turnout for Washington blacks was 20% below that for Washington whites.
Again, Novoselic does the virtuous thing and continues an articulated objection to winner-take-all elections. He makes a good case the defeat of the Voting Rights Act is an obvious opportunity to ditch winner-take-all and look at, adopt voting methods that dilute minority votes, voters less.
He’d like to give Limited Voting a new name I’m guessing, so it might be used more in case.
Every voting method out there is superior to winner-take-all, excepting of course those political units that don’t mind or even prefer a schism (if it exists) that leads to divorce.
Novoselic talks about “majority groups of all definitions” and their over-representation. It would have been clearer if he’d just called out the major parties, as they are the only things that both pose as majorities (alternating perpetual monopoly) and are widely misunderstood to be majorities, rather than the fixed establishment coalitions existing within a real body politic of nothing but minorities that would be lucky to affiliate by true preference and get reconciled electorally into true governing coalition and a range of opposition.
NOW – bare majority of votes (or less) x bare majority of CRACK gerrymander districts = 25 (or less) percent ANTI-Democracy minority rule.
Both houses of the gerrymander Congress, ALL houses of ALL 50 State legislatures and many local regimes in the USA.
P.R. (both majority rule – DEMOCRACY and minority representation) and nonpartisan App.V.
Otherwise see the last decades of the Roman Republic – civil wars, tyrants, Augustus Caesar
The title says it all, name some celebrities that could/could have made it all the way to the Oval Office and become a second Reagan. Ted Nugent: Already fairly political, his economic policies would please most conservatives, but his foreign policy would scare everyone away, he could get a cabinet position and become president via terrorist attack. Billy Mays: Tons of charisma, could have made speeches for John McCain. Dave Mustaine: As I discussed with a fellow metal head/alt historian on another site, Dave Mustaine is fairly political and can attract Republicans to vote for him, but will still keep most Democrats, he’s already an icon so it’s easier to get him into a stepping stone office. Tom Morello: Same with Mustaine, but he’d be unable to attract Republicans, he’d also run under the Green Party. Krist Novoselic: Is currently a community organizer, having been part of Nirvana he could easily win any election for any office after Kurt Cobain’s death. One of the few bassists electable as president (Mike Huckabee counts. ) Bill Gates: He could win any election up to governor, and then he’s just a step away from the Oval Office. Harry Turtledove: I’ve explained how in another thread.
Novoselic has recently also talked about ‘American forms of proportional voting’ so is this what he means? If so, and he (and FairVote as a whole) are leaving out the most common forms of proportional elections, then what are we left to guess about their motives and intentions? I for one am guessing that they intend to leave the ‘two party system’ in place with a corner here and there set aside for a minor party or two. Not satisfactory, not satisfactory at all.