Showing posts with label alternative vote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alternative vote. Show all posts
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
Other things to think about while you're waiting for Pennsylvanians to vote....
So, there are some other things happening in the world besides the endless punditry going on:
Beijing 2008 International Olympics
Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah is speaking at Seaton Hall, NJ April 24
There's a big Hullabaloo about Horton and Who?...
Other things to do:
Yoga
Central Park
St. Louis Zoo
Let's do something else!
Beijing 2008 International Olympics
Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah is speaking at Seaton Hall, NJ April 24
There's a big Hullabaloo about Horton and Who?...
Other things to do:
Yoga
Central Park
St. Louis Zoo
Let's do something else!
Saturday, December 08, 2007
Conversations on Primaries and Caucuses and Independents
The first votes of the 2008 presidential election will soon be cast and we all know that there's more than a bucketful of manure about to hit the fan soon thereafter. Just under the 2-party-winner-take-all system however, something else is brewing. An independent presidential candidate? A grassroots primary where everyone can vote? A national system of ballot access for regular people? If it wasn't politics, this just might be "fun"!
As part of the "Draft Mike Bloomberg" movement, here's a new site called Unite for Mike
IndependentPrimary.com is running an online presidential primary for independent voters until Dec. 18... Word is that Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich are in a dead heat.... Results will be sent via email to all participants and released to the media after the end of the primary. Log in and vote!
National Presidential Caucus held about 17 grassroots caucuses around the country yesterday.
New Hampshire independents are sticking to their guns
Independent Voters Alliance has a national design for equal and fair ballot access for all citizens
As part of the "Draft Mike Bloomberg" movement, here's a new site called Unite for Mike
IndependentPrimary.com is running an online presidential primary for independent voters until Dec. 18... Word is that Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich are in a dead heat.... Results will be sent via email to all participants and released to the media after the end of the primary. Log in and vote!
National Presidential Caucus held about 17 grassroots caucuses around the country yesterday.
New Hampshire independents are sticking to their guns
Independent Voters Alliance has a national design for equal and fair ballot access for all citizens
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Conversations on Instant Runoff Voting
There's a great post on The Existentialist Cowboy (from Texas, where else?? and now linked on The Hankster) called Restoring American Democracy: A Proposal which I came by way of Steve Rankin at Free Citizen... supporting different variations of instant runoff voting:
Existentialist Cowboy says:
Well not so fast! Current polls are showing that 40-43% of the American electorate identify as independent, regardless of party registration, meaning that they choose the candidate they vote for based on issues over party label. The numbers are sometimes surprising: 32% Dem, 31% Repub, 37% independent for local registration...
Lest we forget, it was independent voters who put the issue of the war in Iraq on the national agenda (and I would say that was because of independents' willingness to approach the problem with "fresh eyes" -- not reactive to a long-term partisan strategy to keep the politicians employed...) and it was independents who "swung" Dem to create the change-over in the 2006 elections. This is also indicative of a move to the left by independents.
Existentialist Cowboy continues:
We couldn't agree more!!! Thanks for this post, Existentialist Cowboy! We're looking for more on independent voters and the challenges faced by voters who can't abide the partisan divide....
Existentialist Cowboy says:
"A recent Gallup poll indicates more Americans now identify themselves as Democrats than Republicans —a shift that may give Democrats a long term edge...."
Well not so fast! Current polls are showing that 40-43% of the American electorate identify as independent, regardless of party registration, meaning that they choose the candidate they vote for based on issues over party label. The numbers are sometimes surprising: 32% Dem, 31% Repub, 37% independent for local registration...
Lest we forget, it was independent voters who put the issue of the war in Iraq on the national agenda (and I would say that was because of independents' willingness to approach the problem with "fresh eyes" -- not reactive to a long-term partisan strategy to keep the politicians employed...) and it was independents who "swung" Dem to create the change-over in the 2006 elections. This is also indicative of a move to the left by independents.
Existentialist Cowboy continues:
"In the US various methods of "approval voting" are termed an "instant runoff". The term "ranked choice" is also used to denote a Borda count specifically. In the UK, the term AV, or "Alternative Vote" is used. In Canada, the term is "preferential ballot". The time has come for a fundamental change. The question is: will the American people seize perhaps the last opportunity they will have as a nation to bring about a "rebirth of freedom".
We couldn't agree more!!! Thanks for this post, Existentialist Cowboy! We're looking for more on independent voters and the challenges faced by voters who can't abide the partisan divide....
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