Comments on: Sylvia Lim asks for transparency in electoral boundaries report

By: Sandy Brisbane

Sandy Brisbane — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:44:00 +0000

I have one word for you: Gerrymander. Old Joe Bjelke-Petersen was a master at it and consequently held power in Queensland for close to 2 decades.

By: J

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:30:13 +0000

Dear Gerald,

Another point that could be brought up to Sylvia Lim is that given that some town councils have lost money in investments, town council funds differ from constituency to constituency. How is it possible to redraw electoral boundaries to take such discrepancies into account?

It is just a thought… Maybe town councils are not correlated to GRCs, which would again beg the question of why they differ in the first place.

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By: sgcynic

sgcynic — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:07:08 +0000

As to why some (constituencies) are changed, and why some are not changed, depends on the configuration at that time, and that is left to the discretion of the Committee.

In other words, the process is not transparent; for all we know, there might not be a cogent set of principles and criteria but left to the whims and fancies of the PM and the Committee.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:39:34 +0000

In other words, “sit down and shut up.” Perfectly reasonable questions; the sort of thing that any reasonably authentic democracy sorts out in its first decade or two of existence. Hint to our overlords: this is at least as much because it helps the ruling party pile on potential weak points in the opposition camp as it is the reverse. Having transparent, defensibly equal boundary-setting also gives the ruling party of the day a better claim to the moral high ground: “see? we don’t have to cheat to win.”

The unmistakable impression the status quo gives anyone not already drinking the Ruler’s purple Kool-Aid is that the Party of Absolute Power doesn’t trust its ability to hang onto that power in anything approximating a fair fight. So much for “From Third World to First;” I guess people are supposed to be content that we made it halfway.

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