Fred Baube on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:31:56 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> The hoopla over the US election and democracy |
> If one wants to vote for a minor party, like the Greens, for example, > one is told that this is "wasting a vote." Hence there is no way within > the party structures to extend the spectrum so that, for example, the > decision to take U.S. troops out of Iraq immediately, would be part of > the public discussion during an election campaign. Thus the campaigns > are dominated by the two major parties misrepresenting each other's > programs so as to avoid debating any real issues. A third-party vote IS mostly throwing it away, and zero-sum games of mutual rhetorical destruction ARE ensured, until they change the rules of the game. But most of the suggested rules changes involve runoff elec- tions and/or party lists, both of which Americans seem dead-set against. So ... how about STV ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Transferable_Vote FBaube Helsinki -- F.Baube fbaube#saunalahti.fi gsm +358 41 536 8192 wmd 60°11'10.8"N 24°57'36.9"E # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net