Dissident MPs should be able to leave Labor and join the Green Party as a protest without hurting the movement. This would require runoffs so a candidate had to get 50% to win an election. Thus there would be no voting for the lesser of two evils, and there would be no wasted votes.

Until we show the establishment that we will build a multi-party system no matter the cost they will not take us seriously. They will wage whatever war they want. In a multi-party system people would have choices, and they could be as anti-war as they wanted without having to worry about electing a Tory war hawk.

San Francisco recently passed a measure that calls for “instant runoff voting” ; it will be implemented this November. In this system the voter rank orders his choices, 1st, 2nd & 3rd. Each voters 1st choice is counted. The lowest vote-getting candidates are removed. Then the 2nd choice candidate of those voters whose 1st place candidates were eliminated are added to the existing tally of the finalists. This continues until one candidate gets 50+1%.

Runoffs can be conducted sequentially or in the instant form. Either way people get to vote their hopes and vision not their fears and resignation.

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