Thought: One body, one vote?

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This topic has come up a few other times on messageboards and mailing lists that we're on, and I was just curious to see what everyone over here thought of it. (Plus I've been thinking about it more in light of the CA recall election, hehehe.)

Should people in a multiple system be able to cast seperate votes? Or should there be a rule of 'one vote per body,' with everyone needing to reach an internal consensus on who/what to vote for? Our personal opinion is of the 'one body, one vote' idea-- because no matter how different the political opinions of the people in a system can be (and they can be very different indeed, we acknowledge that), if you address the issue of giving individual members votes, that gets into the potentially really ugly issue of who does and doesn't qualify as a person. Certainly, we have several people who are developed enough that they'd be able to manage fine if they suddenly got their own bodies (after some initial disorientation), but there are others who are just sort of shadows-- caught perhaps between this world and another so they can't be fully up front, or people who really do fit the description of having only one role or duty. In short, it opens up a philosophical can of worms, so the way we see it is that it's better if we say that only one vote should be cast on behalf of the entire system.

But that's just our opinion, and I'd be interested to know what others think. ^^


Anthea