Mike Feinstein has this op-ed in the Orange County Register, advocating that California use multi-winner legislative districts and proportional representation.
Mike Feinstein has this op-ed in the Orange County Register, advocating that California use multi-winner legislative districts and proportional representation.
This is the 2nd good editorial opinion by Mike Feinstein, Green Party candidate for Secretary of State. Even if he should not make the “Top Two,” he has at least garnered more attention to an important alternative to the legislative system here in California.
Perhaps MF has been looking at BAN ???
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PR and AppV
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It’s great to see MF finally supporting pure proportional representation (PPR), considering that he has nullified any overtures to communicate and be part of an all-party (and independents) efforts to bring unity in an unbiased mathematical equation, since 1994, and when I introduced the Roseanne Barr campaign to the California Green Party where he prohibited my working with the campaign committee because I was registered independent at that time in 2012.
Twenty-three years ago when he opposed my own campaign to bring PPR before the California voters, then again in 2012, I cannot understand how we can mend these fences with MF and how he expects our team to take his efforts seriously.
All is forgiven. His name is elected to our team at the United Coalition California, and we are eagerly awaiting his first act as a team player elected to the United Coalition California.
The United Coalition California and the 243 names elected to the team have been using PPR correctly for more than twenty-three consecutive years and PPR works fine:
http://www.usparliament.org/ss11.php
United Coalition California has been using PPR correctly for more than twenty-three consecutive years but most of the 243 names elected in 2018 are new to our policies. Elected names are not required to use the parliamentary procedures under PPR and so only the votes cast are actually factored into the totals, but all members’ votes are welcomed, factored into the totals and posted online for transparency.
The way to ensure that you get multiparty representation from the districts is simply to use the method DC uses for its at-large council seats, and that New York used to use. Simply, there are however many members elected, but you vote for one, and the top two or three (or however many) get elected.
The most likely way to get a new electoral system is to vote for CAL3 and then try to influence the constitutional conventions writing the new constitutions.