Much of this web-site is now archive, superseded by e-book versions, currently on Amazon. In old age, my last purpose is to alert the general public to my invention of Binomial STV. This is a modification and improvement of the single transferable vote, the worlds most effective voting system, and bane of political careerists, who cheat it relentlessly, because it takes away their safe seats and replaces incumbency with democracy, in voting systems.
The 1918 extension of the franchise included women over thirty. Characterised as giving the People "the vote," what the Act actually gave was the stub vote, a non-transferable vote. This is like commerce without insurance. In most cases, it is true, that insurance is not needed, but without it, you cannot be sure, and commerce would be paralysed. Likewise, in most cases, transferable voting is not needed but without it, you cannot be sure your vote will not be wasted, which paralyses desired use. Moreover, the Single Transferable Vote generally elects more than one of a voters favorite candidates, from a better choice, in multi-member constituencies, rather than just electing a lower preference, if the first preference doesn't take a single member constituency.
Giving "the vote" to women, for the first time, elected just one woman, one enormously rich woman, because the government defaulted on its under-taking to endorse the compromise deal of the Speakers Conference on Electoral Reform, by disposing of STV to Parliament, that would lose its safe seats by it, but keeping the lost deposit, that made elections a rich mans game. No working man or woman could enter Parliament without vetting by mass-funded trade unions. Single member constituencies also acted against women being represented, indeed against the proportional representation of all social attributes (not just parties), afforded by STV giving Proportional Representation as Personal Representation.
Liberating democracy from Impossibility Theorem.
Binomial STV and the Harmonic Mean quota.
The Four Loves: romance, friendship, affection and
charity.
(From C S Lewis)
Sigmund Freud and CG Jung:
seeking the whole man thru a democracy of ones selfs.
The moral sciences as the ethics of scientific method.
Science is ethics or "electics."
A synthesis of deterministic & statistical world-views.
Relativity theory and election method.
The determined dishonesty of atomic energy.
Nuclear deterence threatens its own world war crime.
Index to some early (unrevised) pages in simpler English spelling.
En français: (In French)
Modèle Scientifique du Procès Electoral. (Scrutin Transferable: Single Transferable Vote.)
Getting Ideas: How I dreamt my life away
and survey of this site.
Simpler English spelings Home page of some early versions to these pages. (More consistent than conventional English, tho superseded by my later spelling reforms.)
Relegated pages (or junk-yard).
Three e-books on electoral reform & research may be down-loaded free, in epub format from Smashwords, or as pdf files from the pdf archive. Down-loading the Calibre program enables reading e-books in all formats.
The Commentaries series. (Three more e-books available from Smashwords in epub format.)
Help notes on self-publishing electronic books.
The works of HG Wells came out of copyright, 70 years after his death. Wells might have been dismayed to find that he is still ahead of his time, not least on electoral reform:
World peace thru democracy: HG Wells neglected third phase.
My e-books include works on my friend, the poet and novelist Dorothy Cowlin
April 2025.
e-mail: voting[at]ukscientists[dot]com
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This Democracy Science site began in Spring 1999 at a former venue.