On October 11, a U.S. District Court in Alabama approved a settlement of the lawsuit Alabama State Conference of NAACP v Pleasant Grove, n.d., 2:18cv-2056. The city had been sued in 2018 over its method of electing city council members, which were at-large. The plaintiffs said this method made it difficult for black candidates to be elected. Pleasant Grove is near Birmingham.
The city and the NAACP settled the lawsuit. In the future, voters will use cumulative voting. Every voter will have five votes, and five city councilmembers will be elected. Voters will be free to cast one vote each for five different candidates, or cast all five votes for one particular candidate, or any other combination. Here is the settlement document, which lists the other jurisdictions that already use cumulative voting in Alabama. Cumulative voting avoids the need to split jurisdictions into districts. Thanks to Rick Hasen for this news.
Basic PR – Vote for ONE legis body choice
Party Members = Party Votes x Total Members / Total Votes
Pre-election CANDIDATE rank order lists for moving loser votes.
@DR,
What if the elections are non-partisan?
JR-
PR – PARTISAN – ALL legis bodies — end the total fraud about any so-called nonpartisan legislative bodies — ie the NE Legislature – full of NOT so undercover Donkeys and Elephants — same in ALL local govt legis bodies.
AppV – all NONPARTISAN exec/judic — so ALL partisans can attack any illegal [ act/omit ] enforcement of the laws.
History Note – 1908 Progressives tried to get PR going.
Effort killed off by WW I in 1914-1918 and later 1929-1941 Great Depression.
https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/Pages/OrConst.aspx
1859 Oregon Const – to Nov 2018
ARTICLE II
SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS
Section 16. Election by plurality; proportional representation. In all elections authorized by this constitution until otherwise provided by law, the person or persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected, but provision may be made by law for elections by equal proportional representation of all the voters for every office which is filled by the election of two or more persons whose official duties, rights and powers are equal and concurrent. Every qualified elector resident in his precinct and registered as may be required by law, may vote for one person under the title for each office. Provision may be made by law for the voter’s direct or indirect expression of his first, second or additional choices among the candidates for any office. For an office which is filled by the election of one person it may be required by law that the person elected shall be the final choice of a majority of the electors voting for candidates for that office. These principles may be applied by law to nominations by political parties and organizations. [Constitution of 1859; Amendment proposed by initiative petition filed Jan. 29, 1908, and adopted by the people June 1, 1908]
@DR,
You want to require a city with 10,000 persons to have partisan elections? Are you channelling your inner Eric Holder, who wanted to keep partisan elections in Kinston, NC, so that black voters would know who to vote for?
Thank goodness you are not emperor!
JR – ALL laws are *partisan* — esp in smaller pop places.
esp taxes / borrowing / spending = PARTISAN
what govt jobs exist – cost of such jobs = PARTISAN
what govt contracts happen — who gets such contracts
— esp who gets such jobs and contracts — esp relatives and cronies of the top regime folks
etc.
Virtual nonstop *** detected *** *pay to play* contract corruption in my local area for decades.
See the FELON K. Kipatrick [ex-mayor of Detroit MI] in a Fed Jail for 20 plus years for his rotted contract corruption — major GANGSTA stuff — led to Detroit city bankruptcy in circa 2012.
** UN-detected ** corruption = $$$ X — part of the nonstop statist LOOT the Tax Slaves.
Feds have major anti-corruption forces since Feds have de facto wiped out States with Fed *aid* [States now pass thru agents for Fed cash to local regimes].
@DR,
The Kilpatrick’s may be eligible for your state’s redistricting commission, though Kwame K. might not be able to attend meetings. I think the same may be true for Jennifer Granholm. Are you going to apply?
Sorry the gerrymander standards in the Comm are also void for vagueness.
Too many Con Law MORONS to count did the Mich Con Amdt in 2018 about the Mich Gerrymander Comm [copied from CA Gerrymander Comm] — more CA infection — like CA top 2 primary.
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PR and AppV and TOTSOP.
How much CON-fusion about cumulative voting —
ie UNDER and OVER votes — in REAL elections ???
@DR,
Are you going to apply?
@DR,
Likely more undervotes, with a few overvotes by those who can’t add.
There was an Alabama County, where they used cumulative voting for both primaries and general election. As long as there was only one Democrat, Democrat voters, many of them black, could concentrate their votes on him and elect him to the county commission. But in a cumulative vote primary, any candidate can advance to the general election if there are fewer candidates than positions. This resulted in a split of the Democrat vote.
Cumulative voting, like IRV, requires voters able to forecast the results.
PAV is simpler, and it is impossible to undervote or overvote.
NO apply — for an UNCON Comm.
advanced PR – CANDIDATE rank order lists of other candidates.
Voter – vote for 1 candidate –
move surplus and loser votes – depending on inexact or exact PR method.
@DR,
Will you testify at their hearings? Maybe you can convince the commissioners to resign.
You could also propose multi-member districts based on the relevant population.
NO testify before an UNCON Comm.
Various so-called lawyers and others have been informed of the SCOTUS void for vagueness stuff regarding the Mich gerrymander commission and its scheduled machinations.
ME no do shit… ME JUST TALK SHIT! – Demo Rep (paraphrasing)
Me just help destroy ANTI-Democracy stuff and help create Democracy stuff —
regardless of pre-skoool juvenile MORON postings.
AND… you accomplish this wunnerful work HOW? Posting endlessly on BAN doesn’t count!