Adamas NemesisSep 26, 2021

Today I learned H.G. Wells supported proportional representation, and agreed with me that single transferable vote in large districts (like the whole country) is the best version! His arguments for ranked-choice voting in 1918 are still relevant today.
https://archive.org/details/infourthyear00well/page/124/mode/2up?view=theater&q=proportional

Image is a photograph of H.G. Wells thinking, c. 1890.

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In the fourth year; : Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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With STV you still elect individuals, not party lists, and since a majority in one local district have enough nationwide vote share to win a seat under nationwide PR they'd still be able to elect members of their choice, so what's not to like? Let's do it!

Image is Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach's "Abschied".

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To be clear, I vastly prefer sortition and direct democracy (e.g. citizens' initiatives) to any kind of election system, but if we must have elections why settle for anything less than pure proportional representation of the actual votes?

My blog post on sortition: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2020/11/03/abolish-elections-for-sortition-and-direct-democracy/

Image is Thomas Le Clear's "Young America".

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Abolish Elections: For Sortition and Direct Democracy, Adamas Nemesis

What if we abolished elections and replaced them with a system that was much more democratic? Sounds fantastic? It shouldn't, because

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