Wampum

The CNO Tribal Council has voted to switch from a nine district model, in which seven send two members to the Council, and two send one each, to a 15 district, one member per model.

We supported Stacy Leeds and Raymond Vann and the reform slate -- District 1 Baker and Walkingstick, District 2 Leach and Crittenden, District 3 Yargee and Thornton, District 4 Igert (only), District 5 O'Leary and Shotpouch, District 6 None, District 7 Boen (alone), District 8 Herman and Earley, District 9 Hoskin (alone), and for the two at-large seats created in the 2003 election, which the BIA has correctly declined to approve due to the unlawful exclusion of a portion of the electorate, Keen and Nordwall.

Having the candidates for the two highest vote accumulating campaigns per district seated does lead to outcomes distinguishable from having the candidate for the highest vote accumulating campaign in each half-district seated. Assuming (again) an incumbent slate and a reform slate fielded by two competitive campaigns, with nearly equal effective strength, but favoring the incumbent slate campaign, in the former model the reform slate picks up some number of seats, one in most two-seat districts, and in the latter model the reform slate picks up no seats, unless it manages to win outright in some district, which it also would have won in the other model.