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Educating simple Voters to demand a genuine and simple Electoral system with ‘equal vote’ before any Election.- Part 02 – By Bernard Fernando   PART 2 In order, empower our simple  voters with a genuine, simple, rational and a cost effective  Electoral system,  forging National unity ( Sri Lankan ness), Transparency and Meritocracy championing a  Sri Lankan Democratic model, the writer submitted a package of ‘System Changes’ in 2016 to the authorities and voter dedicated civil organizations to of no avail to date. An updated summary of those ‘System Changes’ that are critical in today’s context is given below for response by our Country loving sovereign voters and others. A summary of Critical ‘System changes’ to be legalised  before any Election Ensure ‘Universal and equal suffrage ‘of Vote as per UN Human Rights Declaration- 1948 and forge ‘Sri Lankan-ness’ by genuinely allocating seats to Parties simply based on their National/District ...

Educating simple Voters to demand a genuine and simple Electoral system with ‘equal vote’ before any Election.- Part 01 – By Bernard Fernando Preface Our simple voters as main stake holders of a General  Election, primarily want to know the Winning Party and the Number of seats they have won and secondarily the names of the ‘225’ who will represent them in the Supreme Parliament. They are not keen to know how the number of seats were calculated but accepted the result like the Bible truth. Even if they were keen, they would have given up halfway, unable to grapple with complex factors such as ‘Relevant Votes’ and ‘Constructive figure’ etc. stated in the Constitution as well as PR/FPP ratios and ‘over-hangs’ arising from the Complex MMV System. However, the writer and a few concerned voters noted from the puzzling results as shown below, that under the pre-1978 FPP and ...