[EL] This ain't Alabama

[David A. Holtzman]

It was an official holiday.
And many poll workers were people with other jobs making about $480 in 
extra money on their day off.
Quality time, quality poll workers, quality election.


On 3/18/2015 3:58 AM, Rob Richie wrote:
> Indeed. Turnout in Israel aslo was over 70% overall, which is actually 
> relatively low among that many established democracies that don't have 
> winner-take-all elections that isolate meaningful participation to 
> only a portion of the electorate.
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> I'm a backer of proportional representation voting rules for the 
> United States, but focused for Congress on more moderate, 
> candidate-centric, statutory systems of districts of three-to-five 
> seats using ranked choice voting -- as articulated nicely in pieces 
> last year by Reihan Salam in Slate 
> <http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/09/abolish_the_single_member_district_that_s_the_best_way_to_ensure_truly_fair.html> 
> and Katrina vanden Heuvel in the Washington Post 
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/katrina-vanden-heuvel-we-need-a-fairer-system-for-choosing-house-members/2014/08/19/bf93c84c-271c-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html>.and 
> as developed in a national plan at our FairVoting.US 
> <http://FairVoting.US> map. Still, it was notable to see two major 
> publications (LA Times and Washington Post) run pieces by staffers 
> yesterday suggesting that that United States has something to learn 
> from the israeli electoral system -- see:
>
> Opinion What if the U.S. adopted Israel's election system? 
> <http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-israel-election-congress-20150317-story.html> 
>  By Michael McGough in Los Angeles Times
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> 4 ways Israel’s electoral system could improve the U.S. 
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/03/17/4-ways-israels-electoral-system-could-improve-the-u-s/> By Ishaan 
> Tharoor in Washington Post.
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> - Rob
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> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:26 PM, John Tanner <john.k.tanner at gmail.com 
> <mailto:john.k.tanner at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>             http://www.timesofisrael.com/ballot-stations-open-as-israelis-choose-new-leadership/
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>             Prisoner turnout reaches 82%
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>     Ballot boxes in Israel’s prisons close at 8 p.m.
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>     Final voter turnout is now reported at 81.74% of Israel’s incarcerated
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>     Read more: Netanyahu hails 'a great victory for our people,'
>     though Herzog in no hurry to concede | The Times of Israel
>     <http://www.timesofisrael.com/ballot-stations-open-as-israelis-choose-new-leadership/#ixzz3UhTXJ4kC>
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