[EM] STV - the transferrable part is OK (fair), the sequential round elimination is not

[James Gilmour]

Kristofer Munsterhjelm  > Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 3:27 PM
> > Juho wrote:
> > If one really wants a two-party system and doesn't want voters to  change
> > that fact then one could ban third parties and accept only two. That 
> > would solve the spoiler problem :-). 
> Who is this "one"? Since that one is at odds with the voters, 
> that's not very democratic, is it?
> 
> I guess that one "democratic" way of doing it would be to have the 
> question itself posed to the voters, but with a suitable low-pass filter 
> (e.g. supermajority required to change it, or a majority over a long 
> time); though then I think it'd be better just to have the 
> filter on the decision process itself.

Why in any country that would merit the description "democracy" would you want to impose a "two-party system" when the votes of the
voters showed that was not what they wanted?

James Gilmour

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