If I vote for both Stein and Anderson, and you vote for only Bush, or only Clinton, or only Stein, my vote should count just as much as yours. Otherwise we arent in a representative system. Until the vote-splitting defect in elections in the US is repaired, the anti-human RINO/DINO political parties shall continue to win office, and shall continue to succeed to all but exclude anyone else from political power. Repairing vote-splitting would defeat the effect of money in politics. The way the money works is it hires negative ads. Why do negative ads affect voter behavior? The plurality voting system forces the voter to the following strategy: 1. Determine who is the worst candidate (call that candidate W[v], the worst candidate in the opinion of voter _v_). 2. Determine which candidate has the best chance of beating W[v] in the election, call that candidate SC[v] for sleazy compromise in the opinion of voter _v_. Note that part of how the voter estimates the viability of a candidacy is by observing how much money there is on each side. 3. Vote for SC[v] and against the other candidates (Plurality voting requires you to vote against all but one candidate). If you would join me in requiring a voting system that empowers the voters equally, the voters strategy would go more like this: 1. Determine which candidates have the best ideas and seem qualified. 2. Vote for them. Under this strategy, the decision about who is the worst candidate is no longer relevant or noteworthy, so negative ads will have no effect on the voters mind and behavior. If I already hate candidate W, your ads cant convince me to hate her more. Or even if they do, I wasnt going to vote for W anyway, so my behavior doesnt change as a result of your ad. So a change to equal votes would decouple money from electoral outcomes better than trying to restrict the flow of the money into advertising. Will every one of you Greens join me in supporting a principle that in order to establish a representative form of government, every State in the US, as well as the elections to Federal office, must switch to voting systems that accord the voters equality in their influence over the outcome, as could be tested by a principle that for each vote that could be cast, another vote could be cast that would cancel it? Disclaimer: I am a dues-paid member of the Justice Party.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 22:58:17 +0000
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