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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Proportional
representation has many election applications, sometimes in flat
contradiction
to each other (particularly in the case of the Additrional
Member System). The
pursuit of progress thru knowledge (usually called science) says
that there is
a right way out of all the wrong ways.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">But
in the past half-century, among reformers, there has been a
notable
pussy-footing on the application of the allegedly desired
principle of
proportional representation. This would offer a particular
voting method that
could be immediately legislated, as an agreed scientific method
of democratic
elections.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">HG
Wells explained this over a century ago (in The Elements of
Reconstruction,
1916).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Since
then, vested interests have<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>muddied
the
waters. Some have required a referendum on electoral reform
(usually to stall
the democratic method, not the undemocratic methods) which would
require a
knowledge of true election method to give a true result.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">As
Wells said, voting method is not a matter of opinion but a
matter of
demonstration.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">A
knowledgeable understanding of voting method requires that there
is one truth,
to aspire to, not many truths. We don’t follow the kinetic
theory of vortices,
from the authority of Descartes. We adhere to the gravity theory
of </span><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Newton</span><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">,
because it,
rather, has been demonstrated to be true.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">A
2024 Welsh commission, a piece of one-party state fluff, asking
people what
they want, to tell them what they are going to get, namely a
closed list
Parliament, had the gall to call itself “representative
democracy.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">It
is the abolition of representative democracy, as the voters are
not allowed to
elect representatives, only parties. The academic Laura
McAllister complained
this was not the way to go to engaging the public in politics.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">About
1978, Labour, backed by the Liberals, tried an open list, the
Regional list for
British Euro-elections, until they were made a fool of, in
Parliament, by
having to admit that the “open” list could elect a party list
candidate with no
personal votes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">That
is why, in 1997, upon regaining office, Liberal-backed New
Labour straight away
passed an edict for a closed list to British Euro-elections. (A
Labour leader
of a Metropolitan Council commented, on BBC Panorama: We don’t
have much say in
the Labour Party.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Regards,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Richard
Lung. <br>
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