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Nah mate, what you need is a federal level election handling organisation which sets consistent procedures in place across all states for federal elections. Ta
by manicdee 8y ago
Nah mate, what you need is a federal level election handling organisation which sets consistent procedures in place across all states for federal elections.
Take the Australian Electorally Commission as a model of something that isn’t totally broken by design, and work from there. There are strict controls over who is or is not allowed to do what with a ballot at every stage of its life.
You need a single federal body handling federal elections, and consistent procedures in place for state level elections.
You also need to get rid of gerrymandering, perhaps having electorate boundaries set by the electoral commission independent of the state.
- pas 8y ago> gerrymandering Just stop with the small districts, use ranked voting (or single transferable vote) and for a lot bigger regions.
- manicdee 8y agoYeah, multi-seat electorates will provide more more representative representation certainly.
- pas 8y agoHuh? Currently in a "first past the post" voting system every district has a lot of votes that are lost. If a candidate wins with 51%, then 49% of those votes are lost. Gone. Poof. And gerrymandering exploits this by creating a lot of these districts, let's say that likely results in 60-40%. Those 40%s are lost. One way to solve that is to bundle districts, because if you bundle 10 such 60-40 districts, then you should end up with 6-4 instead of 10-0.