Comments on: Action item for libertarians and small-government conservatives http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/04/06/action-item-for-libertarians-and-small-government-conservatives/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 03:02:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Norm http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/04/06/action-item-for-libertarians-and-small-government-conservatives/#comment-64790 Norm Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:38:31 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=4940#comment-64790 The free market is all about choice. What we need is more choice in our elections. Currently when you vote you are only allowed one choice. That perpetuates the spoiler effect and throws away a lot of data on what the public wants. As a result it discounts anyone that is not a career politician.

Only if we eliminate single choice balloting will we open the political marketplace to more than the big two.

Because of the possibility ballot manipulation (adding votes to a already voted ballot) straight more than one is out. That’s why IRV is a better choice than what we have now.

All this other stuff is just munching at the edges. Until this systemic problem is fixed were doomed I say. Doomed!

]]> By: Norm http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/04/06/action-item-for-libertarians-and-small-government-conservatives/#comment-64776 Norm Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:50:38 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=4940#comment-64776 The free market is all about choice. What we need is more choice in our elections. Currently when you vote you are only allowed one choice. That perpetuates the spoiler effect and throws away a lot of data on what the public wants. As a result it discounts anyone that is not a career politician.

Only if we eliminate single choice balloting will we open the political marketplace to more than the big two.

Because of the possibility ballot manipulation (adding votes to a already voted ballot) straight more than one is out. That’s why [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting]IRV[/url] is a better choice than what we have now.

All this other stuff is just munching at the edges. Until this systemic problem is fixed were doomed I say. Doomed!

]]> By: The Liberty Papers »Blog Archive » Lame Quote of the Day http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/04/06/action-item-for-libertarians-and-small-government-conservatives/#comment-64766 The Liberty Papers »Blog Archive » Lame Quote of the Day Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:45:25 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=4940#comment-64766 [...] I feel about as sorry for Murdoch as I do for AIG, General Motors, Chrysler, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Catfish Genome Project. [...]

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