The voters of Fargo, North Dakota, have passed a city ballot measure that institutes Approval Voting. Fargo will be the first city in the United States to use Approval Voting. Voters may vote for every candidate they wish, for a particular office. UPDATE: see this press release from the sponsors of the initiative, which explains the system.
This will utterly destroy duopoly.
Approval voting is not pure proportional representation (PPR) like in Cambridge Massachusetts.
Approval voting often awards the largest majority in multiple winner districts more seats than is proportionate to votes compared to small minority civic group’s seats.
Approval voting is no good.
The United Coalition USA has been using parliamentary procedures under pure proportional representation for more than twenty-three consecutive years but the party bosses didn’t want their members to know about the team and so the party bosses have viciously opposed the United Coalition USA since 1992 when Mike Ossipoff [Peace and Freedom] first brought the Hagenbach-Bischoff quota to the team in Santa Cruz city council elections.
http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc-p7-usa.html
The same party bosses probably said the same thing about “destroying the duopoly” in SF and they’re probably still saying it now and the won’t even look in the mirror in their own town and admit they have cemented a one-party system in SF.
The United Coalition USA is bringing the correct mathematics for pure proportional representation (PPR) in 2020:
http://www.usparliament.org/google2020.php
PR – legis
AppV – exec/judic
Approval Voting Party candidate Blake Huber for Colorado Secretary of State looses to newcomer Democratic Party unsider Voting Rights Attorney Jena Griswold as elected Colorado Secretary of State.
DemoRep: You must be very happy! 🙂
The United Coalition USA would happily welcome the splinter parties (and independents) to the national team.
Our team brings unity through equal time, equal treatment for the whole, including splinter groups with as little as 1/358ths of the national voters in the PPR Electoral College.
The Approval Voting Party, the Environmentalist Party, the Boston Tea Party, the Free Tea Rainbow Party, the Ordinary Anarchist Party, the Roseannearchist Party, in fact we welcome the liberty to self-proclaim and self-categorise as you wish, and we guarantee this liberty to all, no matter how you are registered in your home state. We respect your livery to self-categorise and everyone has their own reason for that, no questions asked.
But the party bosses have proven that they are not interested in the liberty to self-categirize and they have bitterly fought tooth and nail against the free speech of our team.
Only by pure proportional representation (PPR), can we guarantee not just equal election threshold across the board, but the lowest thresholds possible, for all nominees of all parties (and independents).
DG —
Fargo AV = Some MAJOR Progress in saving Western Civilization
— akin to the USA-France Victory on 19 Oct 1781 at Yorktown, VA — Defeat of Brit Army
— lead to 1783 USA-Brit. Peace Treaty — Glory for 1775-1783 American/Allies dead/injured.
1776 DOI enforced.
https://reformfargo.org/approval-voting
see the FAQ link at page bottom – blast at IRV/RCV.
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Will the State gerrymander MONSTERS strike back — to attack and destroy AV
— under pressure from top USA gerrymander MONSTERS ???
Stay tuned.
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PR – legis
AV – exec/judic
pending Condorcet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting
since early 1970s
This is a f@cken good start of bringing new alternative voting method beside Ranked-Choice/Instant-Runoff voting for the US and the first time of a voting system that finally ascended to be used in politics.
LEGAL TEXT —
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CITY OF FARGO:
A new article of the Home Rule Charter of the City of Fargo is created and enacted as follows:
Article 11 – Election Procedures
A. Methodology
City officials will be elected so that each voter may vote for all the candidates the voter approves of in each race. Candidates receiving the most votes will be elected until all necessary seats are filled in each race.
B. Ballot instructions
For each race to elect city officials, the instructions on the ballot will instruct voters with the directions, “Vote for ALL the names you approve of,” with “ALL” being written in uppercase.
C. Reporting of results
For each candidate’s result in each race, reported vote percentages must be calculated by taking the number of votes for that candidate divided by the total ballots cast.
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NOT QUITE ATOMIC PHYSICS
PR LEGIS
AV – EXEC/JUDIC — PENDING CONDORCET
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AV GENERAL VERSION
Sec. MMM. (1) The Electors shall elect all elected executive officers [(at least a chief executive, a clerk and a treasurer in each government)] for [1] year terms at nonpartisan elections.
(2) The Electors shall elect all judicial officers for the [1 to 6] year terms provided by this constitution and law at nonpartisan elections.
(3) No law change shall reduce the term of any judicial officer.
(4) Each Elector may vote for 1 or more candidates for each executive or judicial office (including 1 write-in vote for each position).
(5) The candidate(s) getting the most votes shall be elected (for the longest terms respectively).
[(4)-(5) is the Approval Voting method.]
This AppV voting system will allow the largest civic group to elect 100% of the open seats.
Are you interested in hearing about an advanced voting system that always award seats proportional to the votes cast?
The United Coalition USA feature team players from all parties (and independents) but the Libertarian Party snuffed out the United Coalition USA in 2012 when we brought our team to the table, a team which featured four female POTUS candidates, but the party bossrs did not allow any female candidates to speak, has elected 100% males for last 16 years and now has adopted Approval Voting for their national executives.
They let the Colorado Libertarian speak and he brought AppV to the national LP to our dismay, but we were not permitted to speak though we passed out 500+ paper ballots which elected the 9th USA Parliament’s PPR Electoral College.
Approval Voting (AppV) is no good because AppV allows the largest plurality to elect 100% of the seats under slate voting.
Are you interested in pure proportional representation like in Cambridge Massachusetts?
The United Coalition USA had been using PPR for twenty-three consecutive years and PPR works fine.
In fact we won the only State primary allowing Libertarian POTUS candidates which fell before the national LP convention in 2012 with 52.7%.
We did that despite being de-linked from the national LP website by the national chair, despite being blocked from posting on all LP facebook pages, from Ballot Access News, from Independent Political Report, we were blocked from speaking at county level meetings, we were slandered, harassed and our women candidates were snuffed out and degraded by male and female chauvinists and of course all the unfair treatment by the establishment press.
Our team won despite the unfair, undemocratic actions, by the LP bosses and press.
Now we’re talking about the PPR Electoral College, two candidates, one for President and one Vice President, to be elected under pure proportional representation on Earth Day 2020 in Monterey California USA.
The United Coalition UDA:
http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc-p7-usa.html
New policy. Not like Stein [Green] and Johnson [Libertarian] in 2012 and 2016, but Green and Libertarian (or?) candidates working together under the new PPR Electoral College.
http://www.usparliament.org
What is the magic to get the PPR Prez/VP candidates on the Nov 2020 ballots in ALL 50 States and DC ???
This was a rather large mental “update” for me that took me down this road towards approval voting. Thanks, Ballot Access News/Richard. Not all your comment sections are so out there.
https://ballot-access.org/2010/02/04/oscar-best-picture-determination-to-use-instant-runoff-voting/
I had only learned the concept of a voting method a year and a half before that post, around the same time I learned about BAN.
I don’t think proportional representation works so well in non-partisan races, nor in races for something like smaller city councils and school boards.