[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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