Proportional voting
Sir, — Proportional voting is a method of election designed to give the voter the maximum value for his or her vote. Its primary concern is equity: to ensure that votes equal representation. Second, it offers opportunities for all interests to be proportionally represented. Its origin is in a concern for the fairest possbile result in an election. It is as fair as men will allow it to be. As a method
proportional voting does not accept the unfair anomalies that occur in other electoral methods, such as our own plural majority, Plurocracy accepts the right of a plural majority to be elected over an absolute majority. Democracy is the right of an absolute majority to be elected over a minority. Proportional representation offers compromise and co-operation. Other electoral methods are for specific purposes used quite often for particular interests, usually at the expense and exclusion of the majority. — Yours, etc., L. J. ROBINSON. September 29, 1983.
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