Issues Affecting The Single Transferable Vote
There are a number of complications and issues surrounding the application and use of the single transferable vote that form the basis of discussions between its advocates and detractors.
Read more about Issues Affecting The Single Transferable Vote: Complexity, Effects On Parties, Factions and Candidates, Electoral Stasis, Ballot Design, Proportionality, District Size, Tactical Voting, Vote Management Systems, Voting System Criteria, Vacancies
Famous quotes containing the words issues, affecting, single, transferable and/or vote:
“The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“There isn’t a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as “American.””
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)
“In all history no class has been enfranchised without some selfish motive underlying. If to-day we could prove to Republicans or Democrats that every woman would vote for their party, we should be enfranchised.”
—Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947)