[EM] 1/r as a voting system.

[Fred Gohlke]

Thank you, alabio.  I know my post went beyond the method you outlined 
and I appreciate you describing what you have in mind for the selection 
of candidates.  I gather you came up with it quickly and I hope we can 
improve on it.

The problem with petition-type systems is that they are exploited by 
rabble-rousers; people who are experts are inflaming the public passion 
on issues like women's rights or terrorism.  Such people are rarely good 
advocates of the public interest.  They lack the qualities needed to 
meet the extremely broad range of problems that face our government: 
global warming, diminishing water supply, bureaucracy, financial 
predators, increasing poverty, and a broader range of public problems 
than I can relate.  We have no shortage of people with the intellect and 
the integrity to resolve these problems, the difficulty is in devising a 
method of finding them and raising them to public office.

Fred Gohlke