Re:Gerrymandering and a cure for it – the shortest splitline...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @02:13PM
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> How to we enact it?
(And this applies to any electoral reform that there is resistance to by incumbents, not just approval voting, which I don't particular prefer.)
In states with citizen initiative processes that bypass incumbent office holders, by that method. Elsewhere, by building support in the electorate and then running candidates on a platform of doing that, and keeping organized in the electorate to hold those candidates accountable.
Re:Gerrymandering and a cure for it – the shortest splitline...
by specialist on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @10:30PM
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Low hanging fruit.
Join your local party and sneak it into your platform.
Use it whenever it makes sense. I used approval voting for feature planning and triaging bugs.
Our study group uses it to choose dinner.
Etc.
How to we enact it?
I also see a small problem.
Party representatives stand outside of polling places and present voters with lists of party endorsed candidates. People who currently vote solely on the basis of party will just approve only candidates who are on the party provided list.
The two major parties control virtually every legislative body in the country and the current system serves them best.
Knee-jerk answers like "Vote the bums out" isn't realistic. I'm thinking back to when the people of Washington DC voted back into office as their mayor, a man who was videotaped smoking crack cocaine. Even when it should be a simple matter, party politics trumps common sense.