[EM] What is the goal of a "better" election method?

[VoteFair]

On 1/8/2017 6:49 PM, Sennet Williams wrote:
 > What is the goal  of a  "better" election method?

My answer:

Less corruption, which leads to greater economic prosperity for a far 
greater number of people.  And when there is greater economic prosperity 
in a region/nation/state/province, then lots of "political" problems 
disappear.

Expressed conversely, corruption is when just some people are able to 
get oversized slices of economic pie for themselves, which leaves 
everyone else more aggressively competing for what remains of the 
economic pie.

Another way to say this is that the goal of fairer elections is higher 
levels of democracy, which lead to higher levels of economic prosperity.

Richard Fobes

On 1/8/2017 6:49 PM, Sennet Williams wrote:
> I follow this list when I can, but it is not really clear what the 
> benefit would be of a different election system, except possibly 
> "counting more votes" or "representing more voters." It seems like a 
> waste of energy unless it will accomplish a goal that the most 
> eligiible voters will be motivated by.
> -Personally, I want "better govt."
> -China is working to end "multi-party politics" because it results in 
> bad govt. (I think that the Chinese govt. is referring to parliament 
> rather than the two-party system)
> -The Berkeley Daily Cal editorialized for IRV because "IRV lets you 
> vote for who you really want"  (something to that effect, that was a 
> long time ago and memory fades)
>
> The point is, comments on this list might be more effective if you declare
> 1-what benefit to the organization that your voting system will 
> accomplish.
>
> Keep in mind that lots of people DO NOT want to enfranchise more 
> voters.  They might not see the benefit of it.  More people voting 
> reduces the influence of the previous voters.
>
>
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