02/03/02 - STV for Candidate Lists:

[DEMOREP1 at aol.com]

Mr. Cretney wrote in part-

I think that closed party list has a lot to say for itself.
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4.  More importantly, the elections themselves are easier to understand, 
because they are so partisan.  Purely local races are confusing to 
voters, and require a lot more money in order to educate/propagandize 
them.  This is why American style personality politics has the problems 
it does.  Voter's are confused, and politicians are constantly desperate 
for large sums of money from people like the folks at Enron.
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D- Only a small percentage of legislative body districts for the Congress and 
State legislatures are even *marginally competitive* due to single member 
gerrymanders and special interest gang plurality primaries (with top 2 runoff 
primaries in 9 States) and plurality general elections.

Most voters have enough brains to be able to vote YES/NO and 1, 2, 3, etc. 
for their choices in any sort of *accurate* p.r. election.

The various political party gang leaders will *instruct* their supporters how 
to vote *correctly* whatever method is being used.

Such clashing instructions will likely not ALL produce the intended effects.