[Election-Methods] PR favoring racial minorities

[Kathy Dopp]

> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:08:40 -0400
> From: "Warren Smith" <warren.wds at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Election-Methods] PR favoring racial minorities
>        (Gilmour/Dopp?)
> and while PR-STV has been tried, it plainly has NOT
> led to tremendously representative legislatures.
>
> Instead it is based on the mathematical theorem that
> if people vote in a racial manner, then if X percent of people vote
> black, and enough
> black candidates are available, then we get X percent
> black winners.

And this theorem while it may sound believable at first glance is
instead of course obvious mathematical nonsense and easily rebutted
with any one of a countable infinite number of counterexamples.

Cheers,

Kathy