[EM] PR vs Single-Winner Reform

Alex Small asmall at physics.ucsb.edu
Thu Apr 8 19:32:02 PDT 2004


Forest Simmons said:
> I think the public would find the televised Election Completion
> Convention to be very informative and interesting, a great educational
> experience, especially if Condorcet and Approval were sometimes used as
> the completion methods.
>
> After the public had a few years of exposure to these methods through
> the Completion Convention, perhaps they would want to try them directly.
>
> Candidate Proxy might be the best bridge to better methods.

Maybe the easiest way to get some publicity for this idea is to find a
member of Congress who has introduced an amendment to abolish or reform
the electoral college (there have been several such amendments in recent
years) and try to bring this amendment to his or her attention.

I have no illusion that the idea would take the Congress by storm and
bring about radical reform, but it might garner a news story or two, which
would be one or two more news stories than its gotten thus far.





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