[-empyre-] a week to go on the trump effect

[William Bain]

PersonallyI’ve learned a great deal from this discussion, not least from the way itstarted somewhat sakily and then grew out along different paths. Right now Ijust wanted to mention again the well known idea that the voting system needsoverhauling. I mentioned proportional representation at some point and thismorning I looke d over a few documents found on the internet. One is a shortbut thoruough runthrough of the situation from *The Guardian* dated June 2016. It’sa piece by Trevor Timm: <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/america-voting-system-broken-democracy-clinton-sanders-primary>Into Wikipedia with /electoral reform in the united states/.What comes out there after a general discussion is that as I’m sure people hereare already aware, there are different systems in different states. Section 4of the article mentions these systems, especially good (and abbreviagted) underthe subtitle /electoral reform in specific states/. I think Californiaand Oregongive the best basic assessment. Section 5 of the article is /References/ includinga link to Laurence Lessig’s ‘Republic, Lost; How Money Corrupts Congress […]. That’s<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_reform_in_the_United_States>Bestwishes, William

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