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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Messaging for voting activism: "pride"
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<p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Thank you
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://medium.com/@jameson.quinn?source=post_header_lockup"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-underline: none;">Jameson
Quinn</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> for your article (<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Make America (Proud to) Vote (Again?)
, #MAVA, 27 July 2017 </span></b>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It expresses our common values very well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yes, “pride in democracy …. should be America’s legacy to all its citizens”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yes, GOLD would greatly improve our existing arrangrments “for electing the House of Representatives and/or state legislatures”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, responding to your key phrases quoted below, I would like to suggest that Evaluative Associational Proportional Representation (EAPR) would be even more efficient than GOLD in removing</span></font></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“gerrymandering” [This is because all EAPR’s citizen’s evaluations during its special “primary election” would determine
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the wasting of votes, e.g. GOLD may “ ignore” 10% of the votes but it is still “proportional overall” [Rather than up
to 90% of Gold’s voters, 100% of EAPR’s voters would “support” their respective congresspersons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is partly achieved quantitatively and qualitatively both by all voters (perhaps by default) “grading” each candidate in the nation as either Excellent, Very Good, Good, Acceptable, Poor, or Rejected; and by giving each congressperson a weighted
vote in the House exactly equal to the number of citizens whose votes had helped to elect them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With regard to this second feature of EAPR, what GOLD calls a “supermajority of voters” would instead continue proportionately to strength the voting power in the House of the congressperson they respectively valued most highly.];</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GOLD’s STV potential elimination of some most favored candidates before all the winners have been discovered [EAPR avoids
this by using the above mentioned Majority Judgment type “grading” of candidates];</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the “risk [of] causing a spoiled election”;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“zero-sum thinking”;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the “penchant for mudslinging”;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">arbitrary features and needless complications, e.g. GOLD sometimes having a) to “split” votes or to “transfer votes”
fractionally, b) to <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“assign additional territory to winners</span>”; c) Also:
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“But in some cases this could leave more or less than 2 in a district; more, if a 3rd-place candidate locally got
<u>exceptionally many</u> votes from out of the district while still having <u>decent support</u> locally, or if the top 2 in the district have less than 50% of the vote combined; and fewer, if the second-place candidate in a district has fewer than half of
the local votes of the first-place.”;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">each citizen to have “a chance to vote for somebody from across the state who really speaks” to them;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">prompt citizens to think of the qualities an ideal congressperson would have [i.e. by using the above mentioned Majority
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“new ideas getting a fair hearing”;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">provide the “geographic spread” as explicitly requested by voters in EAPR’s primary election;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“increase turnout”;</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Give the “freedom for better candidates to run without spoiling the election, and with a viable path for new parties
to grow (and thus also for voters to hold existing parties accountable and make them less complacent”; and</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The upshot is that the winners will have several good characteristics that voters can be proud of.”</span><br>
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“rate each other” [Each failed candidate must “transfer” all her votes to the available congressperson whom she “grades” most highly.].</font></span></p>
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amendments required for the adoption of GOLD rather than EAPR might be expected to be more easily achieved because it retains both single member districts and each congressperson having only one vote in the House.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Alternative, the fact than only EAPR allows each citizen to guarantee that his or her one vote will continue fully to count in the deliberations of the legislature might immediately make it much more attractive to many more citizens, and thus more easily
achieved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This might especially be true for the some 18 states in which the relevant constitutional changes could be achieved directly by citizens using their currently available Initiative and Referenda procedures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The adoption of EAPR in these states could help to pave the way for the adoption of the necessary US Constitutional amendment for EAPR to be used to elect the House of Representatives.</font></span></p>
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brief explanations of how EAPR would work to be sufficiently complete, please feel free to ask me questions or for a copy of my relevant draft article (stevebosworth@hotmail.com).</font></span></p>
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