"Cumulative Voting" Method Gaining Attention 375
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from the vote-early-and-often dept.
from the vote-early-and-often dept.
Local ID10T writes "The AP reports on a system of voting, called 'cumulative voting,' which was just used under court order in Port Chester, NY. Under this system, voters can apportion their votes as they wish — all to one candidate, one to each candidate, or any combination. The system, which has been used in Alabama, Illinois, South Dakota, Texas, and New York, allows a political minority to gain representation if it organizes behind specific candidates. Courts are increasingly mandating cumulative voting when they deem it necessary to provide fair representation." Wikipedia notes that cumulative voting "was used to elect the Illinois House of Representatives from 1870 until its repeal in 1980," without saying why the system was abandoned.
In use since 1870? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The Illinois experience (Score:5, Funny)
That's quite an unfortunate filename.
Re:Sigh... (Score:5, Funny)
"I'll wager that a countryman's half of all Churchill quotations are fictions, dream'd up on a whim to aid the malarkinations of sophists and deceivers. I for one have never met the fucker, and know not one man of good sense who hath."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Re:Sigh... (Score:4, Funny)
"I'll wager that a countryman's half of all Churchill quotations are fictions, dream'd up on a whim to aid the malarkinations of sophists and deceivers. I for one have never met the fucker, and know not one man of good sense who hath."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"What are you staring at, homo?"
- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, to FDR, after the PM emerged naked from his shower at Yalta.
Re:The Illinois experience (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, people should really be using PNG these days.
Re:The Illinois experience (Score:5, Funny)
Because they'll vote for Sarah Palin.
Re:The Illinois experience (Score:2, Funny)
That's democracy.
No, that's cummunism
Re:The Illinois experience (Score:3, Funny)
That's quite an unfortunate filename
You'd have to measure votes by volume.
pinch me (Score:5, Funny)
Did I just see "Carly Fiorina" and "considerable accomplishments" in the same post?
If she mentions anything about synergies, economies of scale or anything that sounds remotely like merging with any nearby state I suggest you run to the hills.