Lossy Compression
Sending a message to Washington is a nice idea. Even Washington must get lonely sometimes.
But since the complexity of a transmission is limited by the resolution of its medium, a carefully thought-out message sent through a binary winner-takes-all election will likely be delivered as a single null bit.
see also : Proportional Representation, Instant Runoff Voting
Is that you redkitty? I haven't seen you around since... August or September or something like that...
Everything ok? Not beeing lost in a pseudopodium that long I hope?!