<div>Dear all,</div>
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<div>thank you for your help with the election system for the council elections of the green party.</div>
<div>I will try to move on with technical testing of Schulze's methods and the specification of the elections to the party lists as soon as time allows.</div>
<div>Thanks all for the support and all methods supplied.</div>
<div>I never could imagine that I would get such a response.</div>
<div>When advocating proportional elections in the party, I have found it difficult to explain to other members of the green party why proportional elections to our party organs is a good thing.</div>
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<div>So far my argument has been the following: </div>
<div>The leadership of the party should represent all members.</div>
<div>Otherwise infighting will follow, which weakens the party both internally and in the eyes of the voter. </div>
<div>A member of the green party without any representatives he/she likes is likely to either </div>
<div>(i) leave the party or </div>
<div>(ii) try to get representation of his/her faction by removing all the current party representatives, which the current representatives naturally do not like, so both sides spend a great deal of time on positional battles instead of working for the party.</div>
<div>An other argument is, that it is much easier to tear down a party's reputation than building it up.</div>
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<div>I guess I would need more help with propagating proportional elections within my party</div>
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<div>I would like to ask you if you could help finding some short and to the point arguments (preferrably with some real-life examples).</div>
<div>We need to explain why a political party would benefit from electing their representatives to the different party councils proportionally instead of using the winner-takes-it-all methods (block-voting) which are in use today.</div>
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<div>Such power arguments could be a help when I try to sell the idea of proportional elections in the Czech Green party.</div>
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<div>Best regards</div>
<div>Peter Zborník</div>