[EM] Recall of a STV member and Direct Democracy

[Donald E Davison]

Greetings list,

Tom Round wrote:
"My own first choice is very much in favour of Single Transferable Vote
with 5- or 7-seat electorates, although I will concede that it is much
harder to operate a right of recall under STV than under either party-list
proportional representation or under a winner-take-all system, where the
MP's "constituency" is easily identified (ie, the whole of either a
district or a party)."

Dear Tom Round,

     Yes, it is a bit harder to recall a member from a STV constituency,
but if a recall is attempted, it must looked at correctly.

     Only the portion of the voters that elected this member have the right
to recall him. That can only be done by having a call for a new election of
all the members in the multi member constituency.
     This is not as unfair to the other members as it seems to be, because
when the people wish to recall members they usually wish to recall more
than one, usually all of them.

     A good way to reduce the need of recall is to allow the people the
power to change a decision made by their members. The principles of Direct
Democracy allow this.
     The people would be more willing to correct their members than to
recall them.

     We must think of members as being our employees. And it follows that
we have the right to correct our employees and to change any decision they
may have made.
     We the people should have this power - it is more important than
election reform.

Regards,
Donald

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 T H E   C O D E   O F   H O N O R   F O R   R E F O R M   A C T I V I S T S

     Any group of reform activists that are thinking about a petition drive
to place a proposal on the ballot are to present their proposal beforehand
to all other reform activists that they know of. The time for debate and
negative comments is before the petition stage. Once the group makes its
final proposal and enters the petition stage, the debates and negative
comments by all reform activists is to cease.
    At this time each activist is to make an honest evaluation. If the
initiative will improve government then each activist is to find it in his
heart to support the initiative, even if it is not exactly what the
activist would like.

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   |       except that part about letting just any old yokel vote."    |
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