The lessons from Goa elections

The counting of votes was completed yesterday after the elections were held on Sat. June 2nd.

As usual like in recent years it was a near hung assembly. With only 40 seats this seems to have become an endemic problem that cannot be solved unless the electoral system is reformed.

But what is the solution ... that will be acceptable to everyone?

I have been reading about 'single transferable vote' and working out hypothetical cases whether this will suit Indian conditions.
Ref: http://aceproject.org/ace-en/topics/es/esd/esd02/esd02d
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote
http://www.compulink.co.uk/~rosenstiel/stvrules/index.htm
http://www.youthstart.org/STV/
My preliminary impressions are this system too fails to take into account the wishes of "ALL" people.

I often wonder how the electorate of any constituency can re-elect a person who is well known to be corrupt and unreliable. It really beats me!! Could this be due to faulty electoral system or is it that the people want to commit harakiri? I would rather believe it is the former and hence my efforts to devise a truly representative polling system.

The politicians are supposed to be the servants of the people and they serve the society particularly when elected to hold office. Instead it has become reversed ... people elect these politicians as their masters and have no say at all in running their lives.

May be as a first step we need to grade candidates on similar lines given in http://www.rd.com/gradethecandidates.do...