Re: [OT] Voting schemes

On 14-Dec-01 at 09:22, Phillip Atcliffe (Phillip.Atcliffe@uwe.ac.uk)
wrote:
> > Instead of "one man, one vote", maybe it should be "one pound 
> (dollar, whatever), one vote". <
> 
> Ah, the Cynosure voting/funding scheme: money _is_ votes. The winning 
> candidate is the one for whom the electorate pledges the most
financial 
> support, and all "votes", including those for the loser(s), go to the 
> Treasury.
> 
> Of course, that was only for the low-to-medium-level bureaucracy; the 
> _real_ rulers weren't voted in and weren't going to be voted out, 
> either.

And I thought we had problems with campaign contributions from
special interest groups.