Another reason why Americans should embrace this call for change is sanguinely stated by the voting theorist, Alexander Tabarrok of George Mason University, “We [Americans and founding fathers] chose our voting system before voting theory existed . . . .I don’t think any voting theorist would choose plurality rule today.”
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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