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Proportional Representation & IRV for UIUC Student Government! |
Current rating: 0 |
by Michael Walcher
Email: solaryacer (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified!) |
11 Nov 2001
Modified: 02:13:47 PM |
Vote Online Monday and tueday from UIUC home page !
Proportional Representation for Student Body Government and Instant RunOff Voting or Executive Positions. VOTE YES. |
UIUC Students Vote Monday 11/12 and Tuesday 11/13 ONLINE only.
Vote YES on Proportional Representation and Instant
RunOff Voting. They are a Referendum on the ballot for
the student body on Monday and Tuesday.
http://www.uiuc.edu/news/ref.html
November 12 and 13, 2001.
Eligible voters: All registered students at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
To vote, go to the University’s web site at
www.uiuc.edu on November 12 and 13.
Please pass this info along to your members.
We have done a bit of sidewalk chalking in the Quad area.
And fliers are available , contact us if you would like to distribute.
If you want to help, contact us, info at end of this
message
Learn More http://www.isg.uiuc.edu
INTERACTIVE EXPLANATIONS from the FairVote website
http://www.fairvote.org
for Instant RunOff Voting
http://www.chrisgates.net/irv
and for Proportional Representation go to ISG site
and/or http://www.fairvote.org
and click on Proportional Representation!
Vince Hayner came down friday from Chicago to promote this, he is a intern at the Midwest Democracy Center
http://www.MidwestDemocracy.org
Call or Email and Us to help before the elections
Michael Walcher solaraycer (at) yahoo.com or call me at 384-5837
and I can get you some quarter sheet fliers to distribute. |
See also:
http://www.prairienet.org/icpr/
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check this out to see how it may work |
by Michael Walcher
solaryacer (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified) |
Current rating: 0
11 Nov 2001
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I am not sure exactly which form UIUC is adopting but:
Here's a once-every-two-years opportunity to see how ranked ballots
actually work in an American municipal election. Cambridge,
Massachusetts held an election this week using the single
transferable vote form of proportional representation
(nicknamed 'choice voting') -- just the way instant runoff voting
works when only one person is to get elected. In Cambridge, with 9
people to be elected, anyone that can get one-ninth of the vote gets
one of the nine seats.
The City of Cambridge website is www.ci.cambridge.ma.us and you can
click on election results for the city council and the school board.
This is a voters guide from 1999 which explains how proportional
representation with ranked ballots works in Cambridge:
http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/~CPL/about/voters.html
This site has a lot of great links about the Cambridge election:
http://www.rwinters.com/ (and Robert Winters who runs the site is a
smart guy who would be happy to answer any questions, especially from
people that are trying to lobby for ranked ballots in their home
communities).
This is the way Ireland and Malta elect their legislatures, and the
Academy Awards uses a similar system of ranked ballots to pick their
nominees. Check this stuff out -- this is how we should elect *every*
legislature. |
