Ok, so...to prove my point, I'm going to try to work this out mathematically....

NA - North American Candidate.
NNA - Non-North American Candidate

Let's assume 1000 FTer's vote. Each votes for 6 candidates (at the best case scenario of 5 NA votes and 1 NNA vote).

The NA pool of ~27 people has 5000 votes, or an average of 185 votes apiece.

The NNA pool of ~5 people has 1000 votes, or an average of 200 votes apiece.

Now, that's not too bad... 15 votes more on average is no big deal. BUT.....

What if 1/2 of the FTers vote 4 NA, 2NNA. (The rest vote 5/1 as in the previous example).

That means 4500 votes go to NA people, or ~166 on average. 1500 votes go to NNAer's or ~300 on average. This is considerably less fair.


Now....since voters are not required to vote all 6 votes, what if our 1000 FTer's vote for 1 NA and 1 NNA each. That's 2000 votes total, 1000/27 = ~37 votes on average for our NA people, 1000/5 = ~200 votes on average for our NNAs.

As you can see, at the BEST case scenerio, (everyone votes the minimum number of NNA votes), the NNA population has a slight edge. As we head towards more votes, the advantage gets better for the NNA population.

BTW: I agree that we should have NNA representation. I rather like AN Diamond's suggestion.

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