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Article #20589Re: Is our election system unfair?
From: Dave Dyer
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1995 00:00
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Of course it's unfair; It's simple mathematics. There was a really interesting feature on the subject, some years ago, in Scientific American. It started by stating a few simple premises (I think it was three), which any reasonable person would agree should be the charicteristics of any "fair" representative voting system; then proceeded to show that they wre mutually inconsistant. There is no way all could be satisfied. So what? life isn't fair either. My opinion is that he real battleground is in the court of public opinion, not in the voting boot. Voting only ratifies the current set of prejudices; the real decision is made elsewhere. -- --- My home page: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/dd/ddyer/home.html or try http://www.triple-i.com/~ddyer/home.html
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,18d9c9990c6a483f X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: f504b,18d9c9990c6a483f X-Google-Attributes: gidf504b,public X-Google-Thread: fc3d0,18d9c9990c6a483f X-Google-Attributes: gidfc3d0,public X-Google-Thread: 104eff,18d9c9990c6a483f X-Google-Attributes: gid104eff,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,18d9c9990c6a483f X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: fb374,18d9c9990c6a483f X-Google-Attributes: gidfb374,public From: ddyer@netcom.com (Dave Dyer) Subject: Re: Is our election system unfair? Date: 1995/06/05 Message-ID: <ddyerD9oppH.FC5@netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 103783299 sender: ddyer@netcom14.netcom.com references: <Edda1995Jun4.005315.2197@news.compulink.com> followup-to: ca.general,ca.politics,can.general,can.politics,ont.general,tor.general organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) reply-to: ddyer@netcom.com newsgroups: ca.general,ca.politics,can.general,can.politics,ont.general,tor.general