Israel holds a parliamentary election on April 9, 2019. Here is the wikipedia list of parties participating in the election. There are forty parties participating in the election.
Israel holds a parliamentary election on April 9, 2019. Here is the wikipedia list of parties participating in the election. There are forty parties participating in the election.
Does Neturei Karta have a party? Literally means “Guardians of the City” in Aramaic and is a religious group of Haredi Jews. They call for a dismantling of the State of Israel.
and FYI, it can’t really be any different than the Daam Workers Party (on the Wiki list) which is communist.
Mere 13 parties with seats in current regime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Israeli_legislative_election
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PR regime – ONE nationwide district — top party hacks picking rank order list of candidates in parliament
— with the FATAL *parliamentary* structure —
having some top HACKS having both major executive power and legislative power.
ZERO learned from the structure of the Hitler killer tyrant regime in 1933-1945.
BUT — thousands/millions of years ahead of STONE AGE killer tyrant monarch/oligarch regimes in olde Middle East.
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TOTAL Separation of Powers
Any pic of ballot ???
One of the biggest ever for a legislative body ???
Is the Demo Rep Party on the list? Is James Ogle extending his perpetual candidacy to Israel?
Israel does not use pure proportional representation (PPR). They have an artificial threshold of 5%(?).
The correct math for determining the threshold in Israel, would be:
1/121 (plus one vote)
8/10ths (or .8%) of one percent (plus one vote) = threshold in Israel for PPR
Their threshold 5%(?) would be 6.25 times bigger than the correct threshold for PPR.
Israel does not use pure proportional representation (PPR).
After searching, Wikipedia states that the threshold in Israel is 3.5%:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Israel
They also incorrectly state that Israel uses proportional representation (PR) but Israel doesn’t use PR or PPR.
According to Britannica:
Droop Quota = (Total Votes/Total Seats + 1) + 1
https://www.britannica.com/topic/proportional-representation
If Israel used PR the correct threshold is .8% (plus one vote)
The threshold Israel uses according to Wikipedia is 3.5% which is 4.375 times greater than .8%.
Wikipedia is incorrect in depicting Israel as using PR.
Who determines the winners in Israel? Likely the military-industrial power-block. Not the Israeli voters.
SocraticGadfly, in my defense, I ran for Prez in 1996 and in 1997 Google copied my logo joogle after joining my conversation, they switched from http://www.backrub.com to google, and deleted the conversation when Sergie Brin asked “What is a joogle?” in my conversation about the United Coalition in Usenet. They bought dejanews and renamed it google groups and deleted the moment Brin asked “What is a joogle?”.
When they redirected traffic away from my online mag “The Parliamentarian” they directed that traffic to “Robert’s Rules of Order” pages and Robert’s Rules is wrong because they use 2/3rds and 7/8th thresholds (like the national Libertarian Party still uses) and that’s wrong. It’s wrong because the 1/3rd or 1/8th in the Libertarian Party, the insider party boss clique, is able to prevent the simple majority from succeeding in important votes.
Then in 2012 I ran for POTUS with the LP and won their only primary that feel before the national convention (Missouri) with 52.8%, despite being de-linked from national LP web site, blocked from their California and other state LP facebook pages, blocked by BAN, Independent Political Report and more.
52.8%
Then at the LNC our team, which carried many private debates among the twenty POTUS candidates with who we teamed up in unity, our team was blocked as a “threat” to their elite party boss system and none of the female candidates spoke there that year.
Year after year, a small faction is able to elect both Prez and VP in the LP, and that small faction continues today.
But I did pretty well in 1996 and 2012, and my family has a long history of political activism in Maryland and Alabama. In Alabama both my grandfather and father were political activists who took action against severe civil issues in Birmingham, and I am proud of their work too. (joogle senior, joogle junior and me joogle the 3rd)
I am proud of my political activism and please with the microscopic victories, but our team needs to work hard and try to do better in 2020.
Respectfully,
–James Ogle
Go Ogle [One] 2020
(Not related to Google One)
http://www.usparliament.org/google2020.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Israeli_legislative_election
Do Israel wasted votes math —
vs USA wasted votes — about 38-40 percent in each minority rule gerrymander election.
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@DR and joogle,
See Wikipedia “Elections in Israel”.
Each party has their initials on slips of paper. A voter goes into the voting and selects a slip and places it in a ballot envelope.
The threshold is 3.25%.
In a pure proportional system, no threshold is necessary.
How many zillion UN-used party slips ???
ALL voters can decipher the initials of each party ???
STONE AGE stuff.
Also — IF party slips in public ??? — NO secret taking of a slip = NO secret vote ???
IF slips in private ??? — easy to steal and destroy the slips of other parties ???
More STONE AGE stuff ???
IE – whole election system rotted and questionable ??? — as in the USA.
USA regime — birthday — mere 230 years — since 4 March 1789.
The minority rule gerrymanders continue – H Reps, Senate, EC = de facto oligarchy/monarchy.
TOTAL crisis now possible any second — foreign WARS, Civil WAR II, national debt, etc.
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@DR,
The trays of slips are in the voting booth. The shoulders of the voter are visible from the side,but not his hands. See the picture of a 93-year old Josef Tal voting with the assistance of his granddaughter.
Blank slips are provided in case the supply of slips for a party is exhausted. It would not surprise me if at one time all ballots were handwritten. The letters are listed on the government elections website and are apparently used in advertising by the parties.
In Texas, ballot positions were numbered. The straight-ticket positions were first, so voters would be urged to vote “one and done” or “two and through”. I have seen signs urging a vote for “John Doe, ballot position 73”. When Oregon used punch cards for their all mail elections, voters would be given a list of punch positions for each candidate, and would punch the chads with a paper clip.
You will notice in the picture of the tray of slips, that the slip in the first (right) position of the fourth row, is the same as the row below. An extra slip has been slipped up over a party that should start with the letter ‘nun’. Otherwise the tray would be in alef-bet-ical order (remember that Hebrew is written right to left).
Party symbols could be recognized just like a broker recognizes ticker symbols, or someone knows the difference between ME, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, and MT, or recognize DTW, ORD, LAX, IAH, DEN, ATL, LGA, OR JFK.
I once knew someone who had experience as a travel agent, who could write down codes for teams in the NCAA basketball bracket. A matchup between Michigan and Louisville, might be MI-SDK.
At least a Middle Age paper trail in Israel — unlike Stone Age E-vote regimes like GA in USA —
akin to the black/white rocks in olde Greek purge elections.
How many totally NEW parties/slips for new voters in Apr 2019 election in Israel ???
Given that in Israel one votes for the party rather than for the candidate in the Knesset, it appears that parties would multiply to accommodate candidates who did not get endorsed by a party already in existence. If I understand correctly, a voter only gets to cast one vote for one party. This means that a voter who wanted to favor candidates of different parties is at a disadvantage. Are parties able to cross endorse candidates?
Answering my own question: United Torah Judaism is the main Haredi party in Israel, and is headed by current deputy health minister Yaakov Litzman. It is an alliance of Degel HaTorah and Agudat Israel, two Ashkenazi Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) political parties in the Israeli Knesset. It was first formed in 1992. They currently hold six seats.
James, since I just posted earlier today at my blog about Green Party 2020 candidates, I’m familiar with your background.
@WZ,
There is a scheme where parties can share surplus votes. Imagine a party is entitled to 4.6 seats and another to 5.4. They both might get rounded down. But combined they would be nore assured of a tenth seat. IIUC, This a mechanical arrangement, but one might prefer a somewhat similar party have more strength in cabinet negotiation.
There appears to be a strong association between lists and their leaders. The name of Likud’s list is “Likud headed by Benyamin Netanyahu for Prime Minister”. Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) uses the letter lamet (akin to the Greek letter lamda) as its ballot symbol, which is the initial letter of its leader Avigdor Lieberman’s surname.
My favorite is “HaPiratim, headed by Internet Voting”