Tuesday, June 20, 2006

PropRep Follies

New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord wants proportional representation for his province.

PR's been rejected by voters in Italy after years of producing disfunctional governments and demogogic campaigners. There is movement to get rid of it in Israel, where the gross inequities it causes have helped drive voter turnout down to 60%. But evidence doesn't engage the PR campaigners. Someone said it must be democratic, and that's all they know.
 
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