Keeping with the democratic voting institutions that define our country, write-ins will be allowed, and grassroots movements rewarded.
This is important for the legitimacy and acceptance of voting institutions.
You don't vote for institutions, you vote for politicians," he told the Guardian in an interview.
Giving few details, Carney said that in the immediate aftermath of a yes vote, financial institutions would continue to be offered Bank of England support and depositors would be protected by the existing Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
Youth unemployment is a global epidemic, and as young people choose increasingly not to vote, democratic institutions face a crisis of legitimacy.
If this is the rationale we're following, shouldn't the destruction wrought by Sandy count as a return on our investment in global warming?! Now President Obama is parroting this 140 to 1 "return" figure as justification for spending more money the government doesn't have, this time buying votes from institutions that support brain scientists.
(It is in any event a curious, hybrid campaign, where voters are told that by voting for one institution it will settle the leadership of another).
The deliberations and the voting within these institutions are secret at all stages.
Hence the G20's most concrete promise, that 5% of the IMF's quotas (which determine countries' share of the votes at the institution) will shift away from overrepresented rich countries.
Jean Pisani-Ferry, head of Bruegel, a Brussels think-tank, points out that European countries hold 30% of the seats on the executive boards of the IMF and World Bank, and over 30% of those institutions' voting rights giving them nearly twice as much weight as the United States.
