electoral reform

The Most Disproportionate Result in British Election History

By Dave Brockington

In Dave Brockington

On June 2, 2015

This verdict courtesy of the Electoral Reform Society, who have issued their report here (one of the authors of the report is a past student of ours): Few parties saw their vote shares fairly reflected in terms of seats. The Greens and UKIP won nearly five...

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Republicans Rigging 2016 Redux

By Dave Brockington

On January 17, 2013

Erik beat me to the punch. See also this on the call for red controlled blue states to monkey with the distribution of Electoral College votes to suit the Republican.

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Is Your Cat Confused by AV?

By Dave Brockington

On April 30, 2011

While there was a wedding of some apparent note yesterday on the island where I work and usually live, more interesting are the series of elections on May 5. These.

A “Balanced” Parliament

By Dave Brockington

In 2010 British Election , Dave Brockington

On May 4, 2010

to use the new nomenclature, offers a real chance for electoral reform in the UK: specifically, ditching the SMD / Plurality system in place that offers the country a government with an overwhelming majority of seats that 65% of those voting chose explicitly against, or...

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The Alternative Vote for the United Kingdom?

By Dave Brockington

On February 10, 2010

Gordon Brown managed to get his proposal for a referendum on the Alternative Vote passed by the House of Commons yesterday.So, 1) What does this mean? 2) What would it.

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Clutching at Straws

By Dave Brockington

On September 30, 2009

Gordo lays out his vision for the next Labour government.Most of it is the typical Labour shopping list (and the Tory critique that it hasn't been costed out does ring.

Voting Access on Super Tuesday

By [email protected]

In Uncategorized

On February 5, 2008

Gearing up to head to the polls on way over to school, I'm struck (as I usually am on election day) by how ridiculous it is that we vote on a weekday that is not a national holiday. Talk about disenfranchising specific subsets of voters.