[EM] Poll on voting-systems, to inform voters in upcoming enactment-elections

[Michael Ossipoff]

Electoral reform here is just starting its 2nd try (the 1st was early
20th-century). If it ever starts to take-off, there will probably be
bipartisan federal laws to forbid it in any form anywhere.

On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 20:03 Michael Ossipoff <email9648742 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yes, that federal law doesn’t prevent states from using PR to elect their
> legislators.
>
> So I suggest that PR be included in state electoral reform
> proposal-packages.
>
>
> But single-winner reform, being a less drastic & fundamental change, is
> more feasible sooner.
>
> Enactability soon is very important.
>
> <kdbearman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 4/5/2024 4:33 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
>> > right now there is just Democrat and Republican in the U.S. that have
>> > state primaries
>> = = = = =
>> [KB]  At the moment, Minnesota has three "major" parties.  (We had four
>> until the 2022 election.)  So each of them is entitled by law to be on
>> primary ballots, including the Presidential Nominating Primary we had on
>> Super Tuesday.
>>
>> The continued existence of major party status for the third of them,
>> however, is subject to a MN Supreme Court case that's pending.  It
>> should be decided before the timelines for our August statewide primary.
>>
>> -- -- --
>>
>> On 4/5/2024 5:32 PM, Michael Ossipoff wrote:
>> > Many EM members are in the U.S., where multi-member
>> > congressional-districts are illegal.
>> = = = = =
>> [KB]  Yes, but multi-member state legislative districts are legal to my
>> knowledge, at least in some states.  And gerrymandered state
>> legislatures are a serious problem for democracy in a lot of states.
>>
>>    - Ken Bearman, Minneapolis MN
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