[EM] Re: Conversations with people new to voting systems

James Green-Armytage jarmyta at antioch-college.edu
Sat Apr 2 22:41:56 PST 2005


Russ wrote:
>I can understand how someone could come up with this "one man, one vote"
>objection as a first reaction, but if such a person cannot be persuaded
>of the folly of this objection, that person is obviously not too bright.
>I don't think we should gear our public proposals to that level of
>stupidity.

We should keep in mind that in addition to being accepted by the public,
any new election method will also need to be accepted by the courts as
being constitutional. This may be more difficult for methods that don't
appear to satisfy 1P1V.

James




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