A REAL Solution to Terror
Because it always elects the candidate most exactly in the middle of
all voting, "Ranked Ballot" ("RB", each voter ranking all candidates
in order of preference) is "top-dead-center-counter-extremist" &
more anti-terrorist than all the recent retrenchments combined.
While RB would be equally useful for all else, its real power is
perhaps most clearly shown in the case of potential tribal-civil
war, as in Iraq. Unless the Parliament comes to select its Prime
Minister by RB, it may not hold, & the world will be in danger of
going to war over some oil well or multi-ethnic city. RB would be
equally useful for all other parliamentary &/or presidential
systems, collective leaderships, tribal groupings, religious
confessions, parties & associations as well. Because it gives
minorities a real say in which majority member gets chosen, RB is
the only thing that will lead them to support any plan more than
confederation. Because it gives all combinations of programs, not
just parties, an equal chance, RB is the only thing that's just.
Because it provides real-time alternatives to all proposals, from
wherever, it has brakes, reverse, 3D & hyper-drive. More liberty
and justice can be found in it than in any ideology. Help put this
idea, in time, to as many as possible. The $15,000 cost of a single
full-page ad in USA Today, enough to put RB to virtually everyone
involved on earth, would be repaid in a year & a half at the pre-
9/11 US annual defense spending of $10,000 per family.
We imagine running on the single issue of RB, allowing a
citizens' advisory board based on "Organized Communications" ("OC",
small randomly assigned discussion groups electing reps to higher &
higher levels by means of RB til one small group, exactly in the
middle, remains) to guide us in the rest. You do the same, from the
most local on up.
The "additive" form of RB is first choices being counted & then, if
noone has 50%+, the next choices being added in, & so on, until
someone finally does. RB is the sole unchangeable plank & bylaw of
the Preferential Ballot Party, the only practicable third party.
How can we ask it of others if we do not have it ourselves?
www.preferentialballotparty.org
"Zoe"