The Plurality Voting System Fails Democracy

The bottom line is that even if the U.S. system has traditionally been one of plurality votes, currently there “is no reason to resist change.”

The warning from Klarreich is simply that “citizens should think carefully not just about how well the election machinery counts up the votes but also about how they want the votes to count.”

NOTES

Klarreich, Erica,  “ELECTION SELECTION:  Are we Using the Worst Voting

Procedure?”, Science News, Vol. 162, Nov. 2, 2002, pp. 280-282.

Stoda, Kevin, “Needed Now—Constitutional Amendments for People’s Rights and

for Maintenance of People’s Authority,”

 http://the-teacher.blogspot.com/2007/07/needed-now-constitutional-amendments.html

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