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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (12936)	4/13/2003 6:19:40 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 21614

LLmarinen, Well, I feel that taking the total voting population and dividing that by the number of seats in the elected house to make each district 1 seat is fine as long as it uses the radius of population method. That makes some large districts and some small, but all have the same number of voters in them. Making a 'gerrymander' to include/exclude groups should not be done. The other aspect of listing all the parties on the ticket and then people pick one and they then take totals votes cast and divide that by the elected seats = number of votes needed per seat and that will give 20-30 parties 1 seat or more is a terrible situation. Made for indecision and wrangling and drawn out process = UN and many European countries. better a bit of tyranny than the slow death of the UN ot Italial/french po9litics. Of course, those whose wages depend on the wrangling, they just love it. Bill