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Moral Hazard
Oppressing the 99%
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: with the 1%
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| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
I'm sure you made it a lot easier for us, thanks.
Can anyone give an opinion on any worst case scenarios? or best case scenarios?
I listen to CFRB and other talk radio on the way to and from work recently and don't hear much about it (side note...I was on the radio with Jim Richards last night on another topic: Men who go to clubs just to dance). |
Con
MMP systems tend to result in more minority governments as more parties become represented in the legislature with smaller numbers of seats.
The seats apportioned as a function of the popular vote are filled with persons listed on priority list prior to the election. The lists are prepared by the party leaders. These seats traditionally become ways of rewarding the party faithful for their loyalty.
Additonally, with more seats given to smaller parties the potential for corruption increases, thus, states with proportional representation tend to have very large and strong lobby groups.
Finally, MPPs filling the popular vote seats will not be assigned to any one riding; therefore, they are not accountable to any constituency. Compounding this, the number of ridings are reduced to 90 from 103 (i think), which means larger ridings, which translates into less access to your MPP.
Pro
Will serve to equalize the disconnect between popular vote and the number of seats held by each party.
Allows parties that receive greater then 2.5% of the popular vote to have representation in the Legislature despite failing to have sufficient votes to win any given riding.
Promotes grass roots movements by giving them a stronger voice by way of representation.
Acts as a disinsentive to stategic voting (that could be a con too depending on how you view strategic voting).
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| quote: | Originally posted by RickyM
you're just a shit version of Moral Hazard. At least he knows what he's talking about. |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
lol, i love it when moral feels the need to lay the smack down 
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but i noticed on their list of names only a few ppl voted so far and i live in a huge building..that's too bad
