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Posted photos of the 2008 GRP convention

I have posted the photos I took of the 2008 Green-Rainbow Party convention.  You can find them at the GRP Flickr group or at my Flickr 2008 GRP convention photo set.  I also posted them at the Green-Rainbow Party Facebook group.

Domains moved over. Yeah!

It took a bit, but it is finally done.  I have moved jamesokeefe.org/net/com over to a new domain name provider, and hooked them up to this blog.  Email works as well.  With this change I can now create subdomains and made the three photo albums on this blog their own subdomains.  Also, I added the latest few Twitter posts to the front page and rearranged some of the items.

I am very pleased.

Rethinking how California elects its legislature

The New American Foundation just put out one method that California could use to make its legislature more representative (pdf).  It looks like a regional form of mixed member proportional representation (MMPR).  MMPR is used by Germany to elect the Bundestag (i.e. parliament), and by number of other countries such as New Zealand, and in Scotland and Wales.  Various Canadian provinces have entertained adopting it as well.  I highly recommend that folks read the report if they are interested in changing our seriously flawed electoral system.