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Democracy by Other Means

Aidan Hartley in the NY TImes.
John Stuart Mill addresses this problem in Representative Government, sounding, to our ears, more than a little paternalistic. But surely it’s also true that elections are a necessary but not sufficient element of a democratic society.

Democracy by Other Means
Kenyan democracy has failed because ordinary people were encouraged to believe [...]

2008 01 11 Jonathan Politics Comments (0)

OpenSTV 1.1

OpenSTV 1.1 has been released.
OpenSTV is a Python-based program with a reasonable GUI for counting elections using a variety of STV and selected other rules. I’ve been participating in the project in a small way as a developer; so far I’ve worked mainly o Mac OS X support. Standalone versions of the program are available [...]

2007 03 21 Jonathan Comments (0)