In 2000, a U.S. “vote-swapping” site was set up to make it possible for voters to cast more effective votes for President. An internet site paired up voters in different states. Voters who supported Al Gore and who lived in states which were overwhelmingly Republican or Democratic sought to pair up with Nader voters who lived in swing states. The Green voter would promise to vote for Al Gore in exchange for the Democratic voter voting for Ralph Nader.
Now the same idea has surfaced in Great Britain. As in the United States, most British districts are safe for one particular party, so the system matches up voters in swing districts with voters in safe districts. This Guardian opinion piece explains, and also laments the fact that Britain doesn’t have proportional representation. Here is another article, in The Independent.
The vote-swapping web page is at voteswap.org.
Will the UK media call for marching in the streets or even the R word to get REAL Democracy via P.R. into the 1066 DARK AGE regime of POWERMAD monarchs / oligarchs —
on the 7 May 2015 election night ???
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
I forgot that I had swapped my Texas vote with a Virgina voter in 2000. They voted for Gore in their swing state and I voted Nader in Texas (firmly red state) so the Greens could potentially get close to a 5% national vote thresh hold for public funding in the next election cycle. And that Virginia voter wouldn’t be concerned her vote would “throw” the state to Bush.