Approval Voting in Action?
DEMOREP1 at aol.com
DEMOREP1 at aol.com
Sat Feb 9 18:25:21 PST 2002
Mr. Small wrote in part-
Normally our elections produce majorities, because plurality discourages
third parties. When nobody wins a majority people get upset (and probably
rightly so, although AV doesn't guarantee majorities).
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Majority rule = Democracy (mathematically)
Minority rule = Oligarchy/ Monarchy (mathematically)
No popular majority for President in 1992, 1996 or 2000 (adding to the chaos
in the U.S.A. executive branch). Again in 2004 ???
About 5 U.S. Reps in 2000 did not get majorities in their gerrymander
districts (adding to the indirect minority rule gerrymander super- partisan
chaos in the U.S.A. House of Representatives). New gerrymanders in 2002.
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