Heh. Jerry Brown just vetoed a bill to allow STV in local voting because "STV is too confusing". Hey, don't get too mad at him, Sutter Brown is in the dog hospital. But I've seen a lot of STV elections at my university -- ten with six elected, five with one elected -- and I was involved enough to know that they produced reasonable, representative, and even predictable results. For the senatorial seats, people would have to have at least two constituencies behind them to win, like "sororities and environmentalists", "hispanics and insiders", or "fraternities and assholes". The asshole vote is a real thing.
Democracy is good and all, but we're too invested in the republican form where voting is the only major right. We really need to consider other democratic forms of policy making, like sortition, perhaps in balance with with republican representatives? Democracy is pretty great, but as soon as Neo Queen Serenity shows up I'm defecting in favor of absolute monarchy. Just FYI.
[ 2 ] Clinton, Hilllary
[ 9 ] Trump, Donald
[ 3 ] Bush, Jeb
[ 8 ] Huckabee, Mike
[ 1 ] Sanders, Bernie,
[ 4 ] Stein, Jilll
[ 5 ] Johnson, Gary
[ 6 ] McMullin, Evan
[ 7 ] O'Death, Sweet Meteor
At my university we had a tradition that the person receiving the most last place votes would become the Most Hated Person on Campus, by virtue of receiving the most last-place votes. Mathematically, these will never be counted, so the only reason to put the number there is to tell someone you really care. And yes, that is me on the list for the mock election.
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Democracy is good and all, but we're too invested in the republican form where voting is the only major right. We really need to consider other democratic forms of policy making, like sortition, perhaps in balance with with republican representatives? Democracy is pretty great, but as soon as Neo Queen Serenity shows up I'm defecting in favor of absolute monarchy. Just FYI.
[ 2 ] Clinton, Hilllary
[ 9 ] Trump, Donald
[ 3 ] Bush, Jeb
[ 8 ] Huckabee, Mike
[ 1 ] Sanders, Bernie,
[ 4 ] Stein, Jilll
[ 5 ] Johnson, Gary
[ 6 ] McMullin, Evan
[ 7 ] O'Death, Sweet Meteor
At my university we had a tradition that the person receiving the most last place votes would become the Most Hated Person on Campus, by virtue of receiving the most last-place votes. Mathematically, these will never be counted, so the only reason to put the number there is to tell someone you really care. And yes, that is me on the list for the mock election.
-- ∇×V