Re: The really real as in BON-A-FIDE voter fraud

xyzzy wrote:
On Oct 23, 4:53 pm, "Randolph M. Jones" <rjo...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
xyzzy wrote:
On Oct 23, 1:00 pm, "Randolph M. Jones" <rjo...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
E. F. Hokie wrote:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:10:16 -0500, Chris Bellomy wrote...
E. F. Hokie wrote, On 10/23/08 10:57 AM:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:48:37 -0500, Chris Bellomy wrote...
E. F. Hokie wrote, On 10/22/08 9:44 PM:
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:43:18 -0700 (PDT), xyzzy wrote...
On Oct 22, 9:33 pm, Dan S.
<danUNDERscoreGOEShereSLAUGH...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It happens that Edward M. Kennedy formulated :
Republican and Democrat nominees are on the ballot in Texas
despite missing the filing deadline.
--Tedward
That's nothing. Our Congressman before the one we have now didn't even
live in the district he represented - and he never did to my
understanding
It's not required that he live in the district he represents.
It should be, for a minimum of two years before being elected.
Gerrymanderers ***LOVE*** rules like that.
...so?
So... you're in favor of more severe gerrymandering every ten
years (and more if you're in Texas)?
Oh, no you don't.
It's not a good excuse to leave one thing incorrect because fixing it
will encourage bad actors to act even worse. Gerrymandering is wrong,
stupid, vile, and those responsible for it should be eaten by wolves.
I'm in favor of a constitutional amendment requiring all election
districts to be convex polygons (except for the edges along borders).
borders of what? Counties? Precincts? Lots?
Voting districts. Anything that can be gerrymandered.

But actually I was just kidding...what I really think is that
geography-based voting ought to be viewed as an anachronism in the 21st
century and done away with.

I somewhat agree with you, but the alternatives are things like
proportional representation, which a lot of people consider to be
effete, socialist and european, or even worse, non-transparent. It
would be a tough sell in this county.




Well, I agree that there are problems with traditional proportional representation, where you vote for a party and then the party selects the representatives...because the representatives are not directly accountable to the voters (they are directly accountable to the party leaders). But a preferential voting system would make the representatives directly accountable to the voters, as they are in a geographic system, but would allow voters to organize around whichever issues/geography/organizing principles they desire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_voting
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