http://innermostparts.org/2010/03/19/we-got-instant-runoff-voting/ A blog about Brandeis University, progressive politics, and the spirit of Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis on the campus today. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:33:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://innermostparts.org/2010/03/19/we-got-instant-runoff-voting/comment-page-1/#comment-5295 Friedrich Nietzsche Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:32:05 +0000 http://innermostparts.org/?p=3273#comment-5295 Whenever the occasion for using hte vote arises hardly two-thirds of those entitled to vote, perhaps indeed not even a majority of them, come to the ballot-box, this is a vote *against* the entire voting-system as such. Whenever the occasion for using hte vote arises hardly two-thirds of those entitled to vote, perhaps indeed not even a majority of them, come to the ballot-box, this is a vote *against* the entire voting-system as such.

]]> http://innermostparts.org/2010/03/19/we-got-instant-runoff-voting/comment-page-1/#comment-5293 Comrade Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:29:19 +0000 http://innermostparts.org/?p=3273#comment-5293 So, with something like 3200 undergrad students, we have a voter turnout of at most of 300. At a <10% turn out, the winner is the anti-constitution, anti-student-union voting bloc. I'm fine with that. Not that I don't want a student union, but I want one that is less alienating. So, I don't want a student government - due to it's alienating aspect, an anti-union. Not that I don't want to engage the Administration and the Board of Trustees, but that I want such engagement to be multilateral, constant, and antagonistic - a necessity given our class position as students in a shitty market and corporatist trend. Down with all self-important officials (so, officials in general); down with all anti-unions; down with all administrators. But that's wicked general. But hey, SSIS got secured. Sweeeeeet. And if you want those non-passed changes, you can just pass an amendment the normal way... So, with something like 3200 undergrad students, we have a voter turnout of at most of 300. At a <10% turn out, the winner is the anti-constitution, anti-student-union voting bloc. I'm fine with that.
Not that I don't want a student union, but I want one that is less alienating. So, I don't want a student government – due to it's alienating aspect, an anti-union.
Not that I don't want to engage the Administration and the Board of Trustees, but that I want such engagement to be multilateral, constant, and antagonistic – a necessity given our class position as students in a shitty market and corporatist trend.
Down with all self-important officials (so, officials in general); down with all anti-unions; down with all administrators.
But that's wicked general.
But hey, SSIS got secured. Sweeeeeet. And if you want those non-passed changes, you can just pass an amendment the normal way…

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