#fairvoting — Public Fediverse posts
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Subject: Sign the petition! Prime Minister Andy Burnham: Dear Andy Burnham: it's time for a fair voting system ! #FairVoting
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/andy-burnham-make-fair-votes-happen?source=direct_link&
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"Nearly everyone agrees that our MPs are not up to scratch". Last week we brought together four speakers to debate the best way to improve the quality of our elected representatives. Would a joint manifesto be the answer? | Joshua Thory-Rao
#FairVoting #HoldThemToAccount #CitizensAssemblies #AccessiblePolitics #DebateForProgress #Bylines
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/how-do-we-get-better-mps-a-joint-manifesto/ -
Tired of voting and suffering in campaigns only to end up with a Congress of millionaires who don't represent you? Forget elections; the ancients show us a better and more democratic form of government: sortition and referendum.
Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2020/11/03/abolish-elections-for-sortition-and-direct-democracy/
This post's featured image is Thomas Le Clear's "Young America".
#politics #politicalreform #elections #voting #fairvoting #rankedchoicevoting #sortition #democracy #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting
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To be clear, I vastly prefer sortition and direct democracy (e.g. citizens' initiatives) to any kind of election system, but if we must have elections why settle for anything less than pure proportional representation of the actual votes?
My blog post on sortition: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2020/11/03/abolish-elections-for-sortition-and-direct-democracy/
Image is Thomas Le Clear's "Young America".
#politics #politicalreform #elections #votingsystems #voting #fairvoting #rankedchoicevoting #sortition #democracy #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting
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With STV you still elect individuals, not party lists, and since a majority in one local district have enough nationwide vote share to win a seat under nationwide PR they'd still be able to elect members of their choice, so what's not to like? Let's do it!
Image is Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach's "Abschied".
#politics #politicalreform #elections #votingsystems #voting #fairvoting #rankedchoicevoting #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulgirl
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Today I learned H.G. Wells supported proportional representation, and agreed with me that single transferable vote in large districts (like the whole country) is the best version! His arguments for ranked-choice voting in 1918 are still relevant today.
https://archive.org/details/infourthyear00well/page/124/mode/2up?view=theater&q=proportionalImage is a photograph of H.G. Wells thinking, c. 1890.
#photography #politics #politicalreform #elections #votingsystems #voting #fairvoting #rankedchoicevoting