<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hi Richard,<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"></font><div style="margin-left: 80px;"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> Richard Fobes <ElectionMethods@VoteFair.org></font><br><font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> election-methods@electorama.com </font><br><font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Samedi 18 février 2012 14h47</font><br><font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [EM] STV vs
Party-list PR, could context matter?</font><br><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font> <br>I do favor having more than two parties, but I don't see how three (or more) strong parties can be accommodated until after Congress and state legislatures use voting methods that are compatible with more than two parties.<br><br></div>Do you have real world examples in mind here? Have you looked at assemblies, to which no executive is responsible, that are elected by party list or that<br>for some other reason have multiple parties?<br><br>I have trouble imagining that this is a major issue. Congressional rules based on the assumptions of there being two parties aren't in the U.S. constitution.<br>They can be changed. But they definitely won't see revisions until there is a need to revise them!<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br></div> </div>I think I might agree with you to some extent, in that I don't really care how many party labels there are. Whether there
are two, three, ten, or zero, doesn't<br>tell me much of anything by itself.<br><br>Kevin<br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>