[EM] one person, one vote

Curt Siffert siffert at museworld.com
Sat Jun 5 12:56:01 PDT 2004


This new definition of "one person, one vote" is a semantic parsing.  
You could argue that plurality fails it because a person would be 
voting yes for one candidate and no for many others.  True "one person, 
one vote" under that definition would be for each voter to be randomly 
assigned only one candidate, at which point they would vote Yes or No 
for that candidate, and then not vote anymore.

I would imagine that the original intent of "one person, one vote" was 
for each voter to have the same amount of power.  The "one person, one 
vote" is just a phrase to manifest that intent.  This extra parsing 
ignores that intent, analyses the phrase by itself, and tries to stuff 
new agenda into the phrase.

Curt




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