Re: [OT] Voting schemes

----- Original Message -----
From: "K.H.Ranitzsch" <KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Voting schemes

> The most popular alternatives are :
> * a district-based scheme where the winner has to get at least half
the
> votes - if there is no clear decision in the first round of voting,
there
is
> arun-off a few weeks later between the two frontrunners.
> * proportional representation: each party presents a list of
candidates,
and
> then gets as many seats as corresponds to their percentage of the
votes.

    All good alternatives for the most part.  I just prefer what I like
to
call the "Heinlein System" because it makes the representative more
accountable to their constituents if they knew they could lose their
seat
the first time they went against wishes of the people he represents. 
That,
and  I don't like the notion of geographic districts.  I'm more
interested
in what a someone who runs for office claims to believe, and not whether
not
they originally lived in my region.

Later,