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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">Happy new year. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">Democracy
is defined as the representation of the individual (vote) in
the community
(count). The one must amount to the other. Personal
preferences must amount to a
collective majority. A wish that is greater among individuals
must translate to
a greater majority in the community. There must be a
correspondence between the
magnitude of individual and community wishes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">Single
choice-order votes may aggregate to a single majority count.
Multiple order votes or
ranked choice votes are required to establish a multiple
majority count. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">Single
preferences for a single majority corresponds to the first
term in a series of
rational counts (as in the Droop quota).</span><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold""> This
general relation of vote to count was regarded unexceptional
by the
mathematician Carl Andrae, when he invented it, in the middle
of the nineteenth
century, as did Thomas Hare.</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">The
mathematician Robert Newland, a member of the London
Mathematical Society,
using Meek method STV, regarded the one choice vote for the
one majority count
“only half a democracy.” John Stuart Mill called it
maiorocracy not democracy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">Politics,
however, has not proved that logical, but partisan, and
perhaps primevally
tribal. A one choice vote cannot logically elect a
multi-member constituency,
as party lists are supposed to do. That is, unless the lists
are party clones.
People are not clones but individuals. Indeed, that is how the
list members are
treated; in a preferential manner, by a privileged group or
individual making a
party list. Party lists are an oligarchic fashion. Voters
lists are a
democratic condition.</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">Party
lists are tolerated because the simple plurality count of the
spot vote elects
a party list of one candidate. The excuse is that the
two-party system never
really offered individual choice [it was always a party
monopoly on personal
representation] and isn’t going to start now. This was
essentially the (politically
led) argument of the </span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Ontario</span><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold""> citizens assembly
on electoral reform.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">HG
Wells promoted a Charter of Scientific Fellowship, in 1941,
which asserted the
democracy of science.</span><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold""> The
Trouble With Physics, by Lee Smolin, says democracy is like
science, except
democracy is majority rule and science works by consensus.
However, the
democracy of John Stuart Mill MP, his prescient speeches
envisioned in parliament,
is a democracy of consensus. Laws should be proportionate to
their support in
the country, which was not possible, by (single) majority
counting, perhaps
splitting the vote in half, in the country, with support for a
law, possibly
halved again, by how representatives vote in parliament.</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">Regards,</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">Richard
Lung.</span></p>
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