[EM] The Global Fight For Electoral Justice: A Primer

[James Gilmour]

Erik
Thank you for your kind words and your comments.  Just a very brief response, on referenda.

With regard to referenda for electoral reform, I would not want to see any country use the New Zealand format, i.e. FPTP for
multiple options.  At least in PEI they used IRV  -  though many on this List would no doubt argue they should have used Condorcet.
(Maybe the result would have been the same in this case  -  I haven't attempted to check.)

Interestingly, all the electoral reform changes the UK in (comparatively) recent years have been to introduce some form of PR
(closed list, regionalised MMP, STV-PR) and all were imposed by the relevant government after a vote in the relevant parliament
(government majority).  Not a referendum in sight until the appalling debacle over the Alternative Vote  -  that was set up to fail.

James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Election-Methods [mailto:election-methods-bounces at lists.electorama.com] On Behalf Of Erik Moeller
> Sent: 04 January 2017 09:19
> To: jgilmour at globalnet.co.uk; ElectionMethods <electionmethods at votefair.org>; election-methods at lists.electorama.com
> Subject: Re: [EM] The Global Fight For Electoral Justice: A Primer
> 
> I think ideally a referendum should be structured like the New Zealand or Prince Edward Island one, giving voters both an
opportunity
> to vote for or against change, and a choice of 2-3 systems proposed by an expert commission with a clear mandate (e.g.," find us a
> system that achieves proportionality per a Gallagher index of 5 or less, while avoiding fragmentation into more than 4-5 parties
at the
> national level").
> 
> Erik



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