2017-8 Mongolia - presidential elections

ODIHR, oh dear, OH DEAR!  ODIHR does not discuss electoral systems.  But to observe a Mongolian (or any other) election without talking about the voting procedure is like talking about Mongolian cuisine without mentioning meat.  Here's another view.

2017-7 UK elections, government

Total number of seats                         =          650

so a majority                            =          326

A         Tories              =          318

B         Lab                  =          262

C         SNP                 =            35

D         LD                   =            12

E          DUP                =            10

F          SF                    =             7

G         PC                   =              4

H         GP                   =              1

For those who believe in majority rule, a minimal majority coalition government could be either:

A + B, or A + C, or A + D, or A + E, or A + F + G or ...

B + C + D + E + F + G, or B + C + D + E + F + H

and in majoritarian democratic theory, any one of these seven combinations is only totally democratic.

2017-6, The Will of the People

The Will of the People: A Critique of (Simple or Weighted) Majority Voting.  In OJPS, 2017, Vol. 7, 311-325.

http://file.scirp.org/pdf/OJPS_2017042816243705.pdf    (See also 2017-1 and 2016-12.)

2017-5, The BB(we'll)C

Yes yes, we'll debate majority voting, perhaps, sometime, well maybe.  See also 2016-7.

2017-4, FPTP = Fake Post-Truth Polling

Should FPTP, First-Past-The-Post, be re-named as Fake Post-Truth Polling?  After all, there is no post!  To win a two-candidate contest requires 50% + 1 of the valid vote.  With ten or more candidates, success could depend on just 10% + 1, and the world record is held by Papua New Guinea where a candidate was elected by less than 5%.  So maybe 95% thought this ‘winner' was the worst!  In a word, FPTP can be hopelessly inaccurate.  So the sensible folk in PNG have now changed their electoral system to a form of preferential voting.  Would that the UK system was also fair. (Published in local NI media.)