Key suggestions are: 1) changing the basis of electoral districts from geographic area to age-cohort; 2) establishment of a new future generations district which can speak for the rights of those who are currently underage; and 3) weighting of votes cast by the younger generations, who may be at a numerical disadvantage in elections.
In addition, political leaders from the ruling National Resistance Movement seeking to build their numerical strength before general elections encourage new districts in exchange for political support.
Mr. Klein, a former deputy leader of the Senate Democrats, joined forces with Republicans before the start of the legislative session to form a coalition that would govern the chamber after Democrats won a numerical majority in the November election.
However, when extrapolating from a surveyed group to the overall population, there is an enormous difference between preference questions (which are used in election polls) and numerical questions (as in cybercrime surveys).
Indeed, all of Silver's examples of supposedly large errors in numerical predictions come from landslide elections.
Those were just the latest figures in the numerical stew that is the presidential election in Florida.
Their best numerical showing had been in the 1966 general election, when 29 women (out of 630 MPs) had been elected.
The budget has been criticised for its opacity about exactly where the spending cuts will fall after the election, but it has not been attacked for numerical trickery.
From a strictly numerical standpoint, voter fraud the scourge that Republicans claim they are addressing with new election laws isn't a problem.
The relationship between the stock market's course in the run-up to an election and the election's outcome may be a "statistical fluke or numerical nonsense," Mr. Stack said.
