Some objectors complain that the state legislature didn’t include itself in the proposed voting-system change.
Michael Ossipoff articles
Michael Ossipoff writes for Democracy Chronicles from Miami, Florida and is one of our earliest and most prolific authors and creators. His writing covers the world of election method reform verifiable election counts and the importance of independent and third party candidates.
Voting Systems Don’t Matter if You Don’t Have a Real Democracy
Why should a better voting-system be allowed, unless the people who own the lawmakers want to cede government to the public? And without verifiable vote-counting, it wouldn’t make the slightest difference.
New Voting Systems Can’t Solve the Problems of Democracy
There’s a widespread assumption that if we just tried a little harder or better, everything would improve, and that it’s soon going to happen. I guess it’s human-nature to want to believe that.
Why the Ruling-Rich Won’t Impeach Trump For Now
The problem with impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors is the ruling-rich benefit from what he’s doing, and he’s doing it for them as well as for himself. He’s their president.
Time is Now For Democrats to Take a Stand on Trump Crimes
In these Trump-times, communities need to stick together, to minimize the harm and damage that Trump, his ruling cronies, and his Republican friends (but Democrats too) can do.
Thorough Comparison of the 12 Best Voting-Systems
This is the final article in a series analyzing the 12 best voting-systems. It is a long and detailed comparison of twelve voting-systems by four standards.
How Approval and Score Voting Compare to the Alternatives
Attempts to improve on Approval and Score Voting are always at least somewhat illusory, because, even when some improvement is achieved, it’s accompanied by problems.
Five Rank Ballot Voting Systems You Might Not Know
The five voting systems described here, although less well known, are an essential ingredient to this series of articles constituting my magnum opus on election methods.
A Few Words of Comparison Between Approval and Score Voting
Score voting offers a compromise between strategy and sincerity. It softens the harm that strategy could do, when that strategy isn’t really in the voter’s best interest.
The Merits of the Approval Voting Method
I consider Approval to be the best voting-system proposal. It’s perfectly matched to and suited to what most matters in voting: Electing from the set of the very best candidates.