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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8101)	5/19/2007 7:54:04 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 12248

"as people have no idea " Don't you have a constitution like the finnish one, where the state must keep the citizens well informed as well as educated? (important stuff in the TV telecommunication market and elections) That even includes parties with less than appr 5% support, if they can form an coalition just for the elections with some other party (producing a total national support of appr 4-5%). This is a very important mechanism for our beloved parties with very limited support, especially if even that support is mainly somewhere, only locally. (Germany has a good system too, using two votes per citizen, one for local FPTP candidates and another for a proportional system, but that is mainly because they have a too large population for a simpler strict PR multi-member system). We even do the same as NZ, we guarantee one small specific geographical region their own (FPTP) seat (the german system is slightly more complicated, while the norwegian system is almost as simple, just four seats in their most northern PR multi-member district). PS Even our special provitions for our neo-liberals (young-finns) did not save them after the neo-liberal NZ crash, now they are once gain trying to hide inside both our major conservative party and our worst little national party. They run into this wall of beeing well informed and educated and recognizing simple propaganda, manipulation of statistics and numbers plus emotionally charged words. Btw, it seems the solution for NZ neo-liberal libertarians would be if NZ could produce a viable center party. After that almost any little party would be welcomed, even in the government (as long as they are able to cooperate). Some districts would even compete in having the weirdest little party (the neighbouring districts would additionally do everything to support them little ones, except if their supporters get gerrymandered to their districts)