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« on: September 16, 2009, 07:11:46 AM »

Awful. France has a time-preserved tradition of evil gerrymandering, though Canada doesn't although my own constituency is a bit weird sociologically, in that it includes the wealthiest parts and the poorest parts of the city.
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« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2009, 02:09:39 PM »

Some independent commissions could be set up, but ultimately, they would remain in the hand of the power. Though, in such a system, if the power touch to an independent commission the people would more easily and more strongly protest. Like if they touched to CNIL in France (concerns protection of personal data).

Sarko shoved a so-called 'independent' commish to give, more or less, a blank cheque to the Chief Gerrymanderer, that piece of crap Marleix. Headed by Yves Guena, a rightist, it only did something if the constituencies were really, really awful.

But people don't care about electoral constituencies as much as they care about something like CNIL since you have tons of people who don't vote, people who are party hacks and votes whichever ways their party tells them to and so forth.
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« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2009, 08:50:30 AM »

The best solution is just to abolish FPTP pure and simple. FPTP is the worst thing invented by man after weapons.
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