On October 16, the Portland Press Herald, the daily newspaper in Portland, Maine, endorsed question Five. This is the statewide initiative that asks voters if they wish to use instant runoff voting in future elections for congress and state office.
On October 16, the Portland Press Herald, the daily newspaper in Portland, Maine, endorsed question Five. This is the statewide initiative that asks voters if they wish to use instant runoff voting in future elections for congress and state office.
Pluralist Elections Must be Stopped
Commentary by James Ogle [Republican]
USA (831) 747-5863
Plurality voting creates fighting, polarization and division.
Civil war.
But the establishment media is only interested in the fights.
To those reporters, that’s the juice or the news.
Now there is a new way of thinking. It’s where working together makes us stronger, fixes more problems and which results in many potential alternatives to war be considered.
The problem is that pure proportional representation is new.
(plurality voting = all voting, other than ranked choice voting in multi-winner election districts, and NO exceptions)
Plurality voting makes candidates think that they must explain why they are better than everyone else. It’s a position in psychology which works against collaboration and diplomacy.
Because of self-centered egotistical maniacs who are attracted by single-winner power grabs generated by single-winner (winner- takes-all) district elections, those same flawed personalities are only able to implement vote plurality elections, civil wars and all things which perpetuate the pluralist psychology.
A good example is how the “voting reformists” implemented ranked choice voting (RCV) in single-winner districts
in San Francisco, Oakland and many other governmental elections, both current and proposed.
But single-winner districts under RCV is still winner-takes-all and the mathematics is the same destructive, polarizing divisive psychology where one civic group takes all the seats in every
single-winner district.
Consequently, the reporters at the SF Chronical and Bay Area News Group, have no idea how to promote the correct math under pure proportional representation. That’s because those in power in these areas; Governor Jerry Brown, Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom,
Senator Feinstein and all the status quo Democratics in power, they love single-winner power grab psychology since they are the biggest party, they win and so they think everything is fine.
But look at the current field of US Presidential candidates; both top contenders are war-mongers, both think bombs and civil war are fine, and all the news is about conflict, division which they
love and embrace.
While President Obama was dropping bombs on Libya in 2014, he was lobbying military contractors who produce these bombs.
But one smart bomb doesn’t cost as much as thousands of paper ballots under pure proportional representation and all of those shooting bombs as well as those who are being murdered by those bombs, actually prefer a peaceful
decision-making alternative to force and violence.
For pluralists, there is no dialogue, no incentive to listen to alternative ideas, no real competition of ideas, collaboration with others through coalition building, as we find under the entertaining and logical results of incremental improvements within pure proportional representation.
Pure Proportional Representation
Fortunately, there is a new way, and it has been available for more than 100 years, since Swiss physicist Edward Hagenbach-Bischoff applied calibrations to election systems to produce pure proportional representation (PR) in the early 1900s.
This is a multi-winner district (two or more names or decision-items elected simultaneously, with NO exceptions)
where RCV is used. Not like San Francisco California, but instead
like Cambridge Massachusetts
city elections.
Get ready for the United Coalition of Candidates 2018!
Are you interested in being part of a team, to vote and think like a team of candidates instead of acting like one person who thinks they are better than everyone else?
Then please sign up as a candidate for next cycle which is launched the day after USA elections on November 9th, 2016.
See the 13-minute video by UK’s Cleese about how PR works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSUKMa1cYHk
All are welcome. All candidates who will consider and confirm that they are vying for public office and who want to work as a team-oriented effort.
We are world-wide, and we are gathering interest from around the world for a peaceful decision-making alternative to force and violence.
Here is the web page for the United Coalition of Candidates:
http://international-parliament.org/ucc.html
Welcome. We look forward to the brotherhood and peace that pure proportional representation will bring on the global, national, super-state, mini-state and county micro-state levels.
Nobody has it as good as the new United Coalition of Candidates.
–James Ogle [Republican]
Vice President and Vote Counting Minister of International Parliament
http://www.usparliament.org/google2016.php
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