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  1. Good debate w @acoyne. We disagree on AV/FPTP mostly because we have a different hierarchy of priorities re the purpose of electoral reform. 2:49 PM May 6th via web
  2. @acoyne I concede that designing a perfect system from scratch unlikely to yield FPTP; but we're not designing a system from scratch. 2:31 PM May 6th via web
  3. @acoyne FPTP=easier to elect a stable government; easier to kick it out. 2:29 PM May 6th via web
  4. @acoyne FPTP = accelerating rewards/punishments for shifts in voter support. A feature not a bug. Bloc vote -50% since 93, seat count -90% 2:27 PM May 6th via web
  5. @acoyne What's 1 person 1 vote? AV, STV, electing PM on one national ballot, or redrawing electoral map so all constituencies have same pop? 2:05 PM May 6th via web en réponse à acoyne
  6. @acoyne FPTP doesn't give wildly disproportionate weight to different votes. Electing MPs in constituencies w/ different populations does. 1:57 PM May 6th via web
  7. @acoyne FPTP provides for 1 person 1 vote, with the person who gets the most votes in a constituency winning. 1:56 PM May 6th via web en réponse à acoyne
  8. @acoyne Yes. In better days, to defend the legitimacy of institutions that gave us centuries of ordered liberty would be called conservatism 1:50 PM May 6th via web en réponse à acoyne
  9. Yes, but FPTP has worked for centuries. Why replace w/ an untested math formula? RT @scbritton: pros and cons to all systems including FPTP 1:39 PM May 6th via web
  10. I guess the 2nd preference on the AV vote failed to carry #yes2av over the top. 1:16 PM May 6th via web
  11. You and I would have fought on opposing sides during the French Revolution RT @Simon_Gardner: @avelshi FPTP is the stability of dictatorship 1:03 PM May 6th via web
  12. Under your logic, anything short of direct democracy is the same thing. RT @Simon_Gardner: @avelshi: FPTP is the stability of dictatorship. 1:00 PM May 6th via web
  13. Implicitly, AV/STV question the very legitimacy of our parliamentary system. Defences of FPTP strengthen the legitimacy of our institutions. 12:53 PM May 6th via web
  14. Anything short of direct democracy fails your test RT @ibushfield: @avelshi Very unclear how disproportionate voting systems are democratic. 12:35 PM May 6th via web
  15. Chaos around the world vs centuries of political stability at home RT @Simon_Gardner: @avelshi FPTP doesn't work. 12:31 PM May 6th via web
  16. I may sound like an 18th c. conservative, but AV/STV are math formulas divorced from human experience, FPTP is our inheritance & it works. 12:25 PM May 6th via web
  17. Congrats to my UK friends who worked hard to achieve today's important result for parliamentary tradition, common sense and, yes, democracy. 11:43 AM May 6th via web
  18. Heading off to Vegas for June 4 weekend w/ my good friend @freedthinking from Forbes. Will advise of any Ruth Ellen Brosseau sightings. 5:33 AM May 6th via ÜberSocial