Summer time and OMOV

It is hot! And did I mention humid? And also hot and humid!
In 4 days time, the registered voters will have the opportunity of trying to change the voting system in Cayman. The current system allows voters in two districts to vote for 4 candidates, another gets three choices, one gets to vote for 2 and two get to vote for only 1 person. The current debate is whether this is a fair system or not? At one time, the number of votes was based on the voting population in the district (i.e. if a district had 4000 voters, they voted for 4 persons at once while another district with 1000 only got to cast one vote) - representation by population. It seems fair but there are some perceived problems about fairness by the single voters against the multi voters. The new propose system is that everyone gets one vote (One Man One Vote) and we go from 15 parliament members from 6 districts to 18 members from 18 districts!
The current Government has said that they will not accept that there is to be a change unless the votes against the current system are 50%+1. A strange way of doing things since in most voting systems, the majority is the winner whether everyone voted or not! Needless to say, the current Government is against the new system.
The other thing is that this small community will have one parliament member for every approximately every 900 voters. Way to high in my books.
But then I am no politician so let the people choose! Time will tell what the result is.
In my books, it a day off work with things to do around the house and other duties to attend to.

I have reverted back from the plastic bike panniers to my old nylon ones. It seems that the vibrations from the rack and riding are causing stress cracks on the pannier mounting points. I had anticipated something like this happening and used large fender washers when doing the original installation but the cracks are around the larger washers. The old panniers will last until later this year when hope to get some new Arkel Metropolitan panniers. They are bigger than my current bags, have a reinforced bottom (unlike my single layer unit) and hold a bit more.

Bye for now!