[EM] Proxy - bicameral

James Green-Armytage jarmyta at antioch-college.edu
Mon May 17 23:16:01 PDT 2004


"Dr. Ernie Prabhakar" <drernie at radicalcentrism.org> writes:
>For example, it seems to me that Robert's Rules explicitly require or 
>assume a one-person/one-vote Plurality type of decision-making, and it 
>thus (naively) inconsistent with rank-order voting.  Is that a fair 
>assessment?  Further, that sort of winner-take-all result seems to lead 
>to a sort of Duverger's effect on committees.

	I suggest that any legislative body is free to take a non-binding ranked
vote on multiple options, tally it using pairwise comparisons, and then do
a traditional up-down vote on the Condorcet winner if one exists. I can't
imagine there being any serious legal barriers to such a practice.

James




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