Subject: Re: [EL] Query re fixed terms in US history
From: Jon Roland
Date: 10/26/2010, 6:12 AM
To: Tom Round
CC: "kirsten_n@me.com" <kirsten_n@me.com>, "election-law@mailman.lls.edu" <election-law@mailman.lls.edu>
Reply-to:
"jon.roland@constitution.org"

This depends in large part on the ways elections and balloting are conducted in each jurisdiction. It is one thing to call new elections when it is the parties more than the individual candidates that people vote for, and another when the candidates' party affiliations are secondary and they are in permanent campaign mode.

Perhaps it is time to explore sortition for members of legislative bodies.
-- Jon

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