Tag Archives: government

Show Me Democracy ...

So what if one state casts 11 electoral votes based on uneven distribution of election resources?

RTF 9th Amendment ...

…the Cons­ti­tu­tion doesn’t say every indi­vi­dual in the Uni­ted Sta­tes or every citi­zen is hereby gran­ted or assu­red the right to habeas. Attor­ney Gene­ral Alberto Gon­za­les at the Senate Judi­ciary Com­mit­tee (transc­ript not avai­la­ble online, see cove­rage by the San Fran­cisco Chro­nicle and Los Ange­les Times) The best reac­tion to this atti­tude towards habeas cor­pus I can ima­gine [...]

ranked voting ...

Ran­ked voting sys­tems per­mit the voter to select mul­ti­ple can­di­da­tes, indi­ca­ting an order of preference. Although ins­tant runoff is more popu­lar and Con­dor­cet is the most “accu­rate”, I pre­fer appro­val voting as a prag­ma­tic solu­tion that is more sup­por­tive of third-​​party can­di­da­tes. (I, per­so­nally, would love to vote Liber­ta­rian for repre­sen­ta­tive legis­la­tors, without fee­ling I was “thro­wing my [...]
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