Proportional Representation

Party of Commons: Washington state's number one alternative party: progress, tradition, ecology. Reform-minded, advocating a lower voting age & non-interventionist foreign policy. Our proposal on proportional representation is based solely on voting numbers and nothing else. We would like to see that any candidate for the state legislature who does not win an election, but gets at least 5% of the vote in a primary or general election would be able to sit in an advisory council, in which the chairman & the deputy chairman of the council would get full seats in the legislature (the chairman in the state senate and the deputy chairman in the state house of representatives). This would of course require a constitutional amendment in all the various state constitutions. We also propose a similar advisory council on the federal level, with the chairpersons taking their seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and the requisite amendment to the federal constitution. Local councils could set up their advisory councils based on a similar format as well. Copyright 2009 - 2012, Party of Commons TM