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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Vote of confidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Constructive Vote of No Confidence (in German: konstruktives Misstrauensvotum) is a specialty of the 1949 German constitution, the Grundgesetz (Basic Law).
		The vote was highly influenced by tactics; although being secret, the voting of the CDU was exposed by the coalition mostly abstaining from the vote.
		The vote was not as tricky technically as the earlier one since it was clear this time that the FDP wanted to switch over to a coalition with the CDU and was already in negotiations at the time the vote happened.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Vote_of_confidence (957 words)

	One Person One Vote
		Abolition of the initial tradition of assigning higher weight to the votes to the property of owners, and to higher degree holders, abolition of the requirements to pass literacy test to exercise one’s voting rights, women’s franchise, etc., have all been movements in the direction of equalizing power of all individuals.
		Let us assume that vote distribution of the two parties is such that one or two constituencies vote 100% in favor of P51, leaving it with less than 50% of the votes in the rest of the constituencies.
		It causes one's vote to be worthless unless he or she votes for one of two major parties.
	www.saxakali.com /demo/democracy.htm (2888 words)

	Electoral System
		As for those with less than Q votes, they will have to combine with other candidates within their own party, bringing total votes of the combine to more than Q. Each such combination could decide on their own as to who would be going to the legislature.
		As far as voting on most piece of legislation is concerned, as noted earlier, it will be done by phone by all of the candidates who contested the election.
		Sum of the votes of all candidates contesting under the banner of a party would be taken to be vote for that party and would determine whether that party is winner or not.
	www.saxakali.com /demo/Democracy2.htm (5373 words)

	Australian DemocratsAustralian Democrat Speeches
		One vote, one value should be introduced into internal party affairs, and control of a party should be vested in its members.
		By the nineties the one vote, one value principle had been introduced to all federal, state and territory electoral law, with the exception of WA.
		He went on to say that the Australian Labor Party had stood for one vote, one value electoral equality for 100 years and did not intend to walk away from its commitment to that principle, remaining totally committed to electoral equality.
	www.democrats.org.au /speeches/index.htm?speech_id=1580 (1368 words)

	The Samuel Griffith Society: Volume 8: Chapter Seven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Its predecessor, `one man, one vote', implied a demand for adult suffrage to be universal; and, as such, was advanced by the London - born South Australian delegate, Dr Cockburn, at the 1891 Australasian Convention as an imperative for constitutional referenda and the federal franchise.
		The phrase `one vote, one value' has never been given a fourth interpretation, which is worth consideration; namely, that if electoral fraud exists to the degree often either proved, or claimed, throughout this Century, then the value of votes cast is depreciated to the degree to which it occurs.
		Further distortions in the value of results can occur through non-voters (6 per cent or more), fraudulent enrolments (largely undetected for want of means or staff to do so), dead wood on the roll, and other factors making arguments of equality by `one vote, one value' difficult to sustain.
	www.samuelgriffith.org.au /papers/html/volume8/v8chap7.htm (5169 words)

	The Greens (WA) - GREENS (WA) ELECTORAL REFORM POSITION
		The Greens (WA) endorse the application of the principle of one vote one value for the Legislative Assembly.
		The proposed one vote one value model is likely to increase the number of metropolitan seats in the Assembly from 34 to 41, out of the total of 57.
		Since we proposed this formula in 2001, the Gallop Government has promised an exemption from the principle of one vote one value for Legislative Assembly seats within the region of Mining and Pastoral, so that it is guaranteed five seats despite its small population.
	wa.greens.org.au /items/News_Item.2005-04-25.5204 (1374 words)

	Australian Parliamentary Library - 1995-96 Research Note 38
		The plaintiffs argued in McGinty that because representative democracy was implied in the Constitution, the concept of equality of voting power (one vote, one value) must also be implied.
		McHugh J found that the principle of representative democracy was not contained in the Constitution and even if it were, whatever representative democracy required at the turn of the century it did not now include a requirement for equal numbers of electors in electoral divisions.
		Toohey J was able to distinguish the case of McKinlay on the grounds that the majority in that case did not address the issue of whether the requirements of a representative democracy included equality of voting power.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/rn/1995-96/96rn38.htm (1013 words)

	One-Vote-One-Value Still Eluding Western Australia [October 12, 2002] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The ALP has 13 and the Greens 5, but the ALP only has 17 votes on the floor of the House because one of their number is the Council President and cannot vote unless there is a tie.
		However, he said the Australian Labor Party had stood for one vote, one value electoral equality for 100 years and did not intend to walk away from its commitment to that principle.
		Mr McGinty said the irony was that the ALP and the Greens together had 18 members in the Legislative Council but had been denied one of these votes because a Labor MP was the council president.
	www.australianpolitics.com /news/2002/10/02-10-12.shtml (506 words)

	Articles - Bicameralism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The bicameral system, therefore, is a method of combining the principle of democratic equality with the principle of federalism — all votes are equal in the lower houses, while all states are equal in the upper houses.
		In Queensland, the appointed upper house was abolished in 1922, while New South Wales there were similar attempts at abolition, before the upper house was reformed in the 1970s to provide for direct election.
		Nowadays, the upper house is elected using proportional voting and the lower house through preferential voting, except in Tasmania, where proportional voting is used for the lower house, and preferential voting for the upper house.
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Bicameralism (1661 words)

	The Dominion: One Citizen, One Vote: Towards Proportional Representation
		If you have a voting system where many people understand at a gut level that they do not get representation, that really decreases the motivation--it's frankly not logical for many people to vote in many ridings across the country.
		Critics of proportional voting systems will often point to a place like Israel where there are 30 or 40 parties and all of them represent 5% and 2% of the country and so on.
		There was essentially a public uproar about the voting system and the political system and finally all the political parties got backed into a corner, which essentially allowed the process to happen.
	dominionpaper.ca /features/2003/08/08/one_citize.html (2912 words)

	Make My Vote Count
		Supporters of the Greens, or people who are locally in a minority such as Labour supporters in Surrey or Tories in Liverpool, might as well not vote at all for all the effect their vote has on the outcome of a general election.
		If the electoral system is reformed, voters will be freed from the dilemmas of tactical voting and able to vote for the party they really support rather than voting to stop the party they most detest.
		FPTP distorts the wishes of the electorate even at the casting of the vote, as well as by failing to reflect voting patterns in parliamentary representation.
	www.makemyvotecount.org.uk /opus6156.html?printable=Y (1227 words)

	Judicial activism and WA's electoral laws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		After WA Attorney General, Jim McGinty, was rebuffed by the state Full Court in his attempts to ram through parliament his hypocritical “one-vote one-value” legislation to reduce the country representation in WA’s parliament, he took his case to the High Court.
		The WA Labor party has been chanting its “one-vote one-value” mantra for years and yet is one of Australia's most undemocratic institutions.
		Although the Senate was originally conceived as a states house, today it makes, amends and blocks laws according to the dictates of the party machines, with little regard to the interests of the states.
	www.australian-news.com.au /one_vote.htm (582 words)

	SA Parliament - History - Broadening Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		One of the important principles of democracy, alongside that of "one person, one vote" is that of "one vote, one value"
		In 1932, rural over-representation was written into the Electoral Act, as part of the coalition agreement between the Liberal Union and the Country Party.
		The principle of "one vote, one value" was then made the over-riding principle for electoral redistributions.
	www.parliament.sa.gov.au /history/html/democ.shtm (228 words)

	New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1893 New Zealand became the first nation to grant women the right to vote on the same basis as men; however, women were not eligible to stand for parliament until 1919.
		In addition to the parties in formal coalition, New Zealand First and United Future provide confidence and supply in return for their leaders being ministers outside cabinet.
		A further arrangement has been made with the Green Party, which has given a commitment not to vote against the government on confidence and supply.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand (5279 words)

	Political Equality
		When that arrangement gave way, the vote in most industrial societies remained the privilege of men having control of their economies.
		It means that such difficult-to-quantify factors as community stability, cultural preservation, and civic pride enter the land use decision-making process along with the traditional measure of profitability from land ownership.
		The concept for property owners voting is not consistent with U. citizens electing their president, citizens of Oregon electing their governor, nor citizens of Josephine County electing their county commissioners.
	www.jeffnet.org /~hugo/politicalbro.htm (708 words)

	Radio Blogger
		Or maybe, Chris, 9/11, and the fact that the country rallied behind the president's message that the war on terror was going to be prosecuted, and not handled as a criminal matter as the Democrats wished, caused you to discount the morality issue as being secondary to who runs things.
		You can't recount most of your political career as being associated with hard left politicians, proudly proclaim that you've voted generally for the Democratic candidate, and then laugh at Rick Santorum because he dared to "out" you as a lefty on your own show.
		No interruption about who this person is, what his biases may be, what axes he or she may have to grind, other than obviously being a Democrat bitter that they're out of power.
	www.radioblogger.com (9829 words)

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		Electoral Affairs Minister Jim McGinty said the final hurdle for the one vote one value laws was cleared last night, with the Legislative Council passing the Constitution and Electoral Amendment Bill 2005, which increased the number of members in the Legislative Assembly.
		"It was simply unfair that a vote in the country was worth two, three and even four times that of a person voting in Perth.
		"The principle of one vote one value is a fundamental right enjoyed by every other State and Territory in Australia.
	www.wa.alp.org.au /media/0505/20003866.html (442 words)

	Australian News Commentary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In a monumental act of hypocrisy, the WA Labor government is ramming through parliament its infamous one-vote one-value legislation, purportedly to give effect to improved democracy, but in reality to entrench its position and to buy the votes of the minor parties in the upper house.
		The Labor party has been chanting its one-vote one-value mantra for years and yet is one of Australia's most undemocratic institutions.
		The Labor party also seems quite happy to be the beneficiary of an unequal voting system in relation to the Senate.
	www.australian-news.com.au /ALP_hypocrisy.htm (284 words)

	Pagerank Explained. Google's PageRank and how to make the most of it.
		Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page's importance from the votes cast for it.
		If the PageRank value differences between PR1, PR2,.....PR10 were equal then that conclusion would hold up, but many people believe that the values between PR1 and PR10 (the maximum) are set on a logarithmic scale, and there is very good reason for believing it.
		The calculation used the value of the inbound link from page B. But page B has an inbound link (from page A) and its new PageRank value hasn't been worked out yet, so page A's new PageRank value is based on inaccurate data and can't be accurate.
	www.webworkshop.net /pagerank.html (6169 words)

	Australian DemocratsAustralian Democrats Press Releases
		The Australian Democrats today called for Greens Senator Bob Brown to back his call to advance global democracy through one vote, one value, by supporting that principle in Western Australia.
		In a display of breathtaking hypocrisy, the Greens today refused the Democrats leave to amend Senator Brown's Greens motion to instead call for one vote, one value in Western Australia.
		b) urges the WA Greens to support the ALP's proposal in WA to introduce one vote, one value in the West Australian legislature.
	www.democrats.org.au /news/?press_id=2740&display=1 (342 words)

	Find in a Library: One vote, one value : electoral re-districting in English local government
		Find in a Library: One vote, one value : electoral re-districting in English local government
		One vote, one value : electoral re-districting in English local government
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/83022a98d0899378a19afeb4da09e526.html (71 words)

	JohnKerry.com - Official Web Site
		I would remind those who invoke values for their own narrow political purposes that the Scriptures do not command us to “heal the sick” only if they have the money to pay for it.
		And I would remind my fellow Democrats that our party will be hollow in purpose, expedient and short-sighted until we renew — and finally win — the battle to make health care a right and not a privilege for every American.
		Take a look at some of what we’ve done together, fighting for what we value most and for the candidates who embody those values.
	www.johnkerry.com (769 words)

	Crean, the poor man's Whitlam? - theage.com.au
		On face value, many of the proposals should be popular, if only because they reduce the power of politicians.
		For instance, the plans for fixed parliamentary terms and for the removal of judges would limit the power of the prime minister to choose the most politically favourable timing for an election.
		A proposal for terms up to a maximum of four years and a referendum to ensure one vote one value were rejected in 1988.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/05/29/1054177670764.html (1112 words)

	WATERING DOWN OF ONE VOTE ONE VALUE NOT ENOUGH
		The Government’s latest election ‘rabbit out of the hat’ which proposes to water down its one vote one value policy, is an attempt to appease rural communities but does not protect representation of farming regions at all according to WAFarmers.
		We view them as means to achieve electoral gains, not reforms, with Labor moving to protect their regional strongholds in the mining and pastoral areas and leaving farming seats in agricultural areas vulnerable.
		If he is prepared to drop half of the electoral reform policy, he should be prepared to drop the lot.
	www.waff.org.au /press_release/release.asp?id=39 (424 words)

	AlterNet: One Vote, One Auction
		And even at that he lost to Tom Ammiano, who spent a measly 45 cents a vote on a write-in campaign and made it into the run-off.
		I don't know about you, but for $182.55 I could easily be talked into changing my vote.
		Now all I need to do is sit back and wait a year until the last days of the campaign when the bidding will really heat up.
	www.alternet.org /story/778 (861 words)

	BRIAN McRAE ONE NATION Vice President Western Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Murray cannot complain about that, because though he voiced his opinion publicly against the "One Vote One Value" legislation prior to it being pushed through by his WA Labor government, he then voted on Party line in favour of that legislation.
		Those whose tiny brains and warped values prevent them from maintaining that title, are usually relegated to the equally colloquial title of: Dick Head, Dork, Wanker or something similar.
		He said that John Howard's remark that this kind of thing is expected after New Year's Eve celebrations and the such, and should also be expected at ANZAC Cove is a damming blight on the Australian people and should be publicly retracted immediately.
	www.onenationparty.org /brianmc.htm (2280 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia
		A 2005 report on democratic reform in the Arab world by the US Council for Foreign Relations co-sponsored by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright urged Arab states to adopt bicameralism, with upper chambers appointed on a 'specialised basis'.
		This led to a boycott of parliamentary elections that year by one radical Islamist party, who said that the government would use the upper house to veto their plans.
		Many secular critics of bicameralism were won round to its benefits in 2005, after Islamist MPs in the lower house voted for the introduction of so-called 'morality police'.
	encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Bicameral (1721 words)

	Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice - Campaigns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice is campaigning against the excessive power that is wielded by a wealthy few through political donations.
		We now live in a lobbyocracy where one vote one value has been replaced by one lobby dollar, one decision favour.
		Lobbyocracy is a collaborative project where we use wiki-based software to track the donations made to political parties and the policy outcomes of this.
	democracyandjustice.org /content/category/11/31/49 (254 words)

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