Dante is looking at us with a cynical grin. These are no longer the islands that time forgot.

Everyone in the USA must have heard of us by now as you cannot hear or see Republican Presidential Contender, Mitt Romney’s, name without next hearing the Cayman Islands, oft with the word “notorious” in front.

We have all heard the government’s campaign using our own money to wreck the One Man, One Vote Referendum that they themselves instigated.

Yes, they instigated the referendum because of their own selfish desires to shore up their arsenal in West Bay to make it certain only their United Democratic Party (UDP) can be elected at next year’s election.

Their “education” lesson was “if it has served us well for years it doesn’t need fixing.” If that philosophy is adopted universally there would be no progress. And that message has been the forefront of their campaign.

The reason is they cannot find anything better to come up with against the indefatigable fact. “One Man, One Vote (OMOV) embraces the following principle:

“All citizens, regardless of where they reside, are entitled to equal legislative representation.

In the US Supreme Court in 1964, they ruled that “a state’s Apportionment plan for seats in both houses of a bicameral state legislature must allocate seats on a population basis so that the voting power of each voter be as equal as possible to that of any other voter.”

The nonsense of the “UDP Vote No” advert, where a young woman states you are dividing up the country into divisions and people who had three or four votes will be losing them, is outrageously misleading. It is also untrue.

If you have three or four votes you can only use them in your district. They have divided and restricted use. The same district you reside in now would be divided up into three or four EQUAL residential pieces. Your district gets exactly the same REPRESENTATION. The person you elect under the OMOV has proportional representation to you personally. In East End the representative there gets approximately the same number of people he is immediately responsible for as someone in the subdivided district of George Town. You know him and he knows you.

Now how can anyone say “No” to that unless you are completely brainwashed. If you are a UDP supporter and you are “educated” to commit suicide would you do it? Of course not. But you are putting this country back into the islands that time forgot if you vote “no” and/or don’t turn up and vote “YES”.

The slave population in the US campaigned and fought for the OMOV representation they now have. The suffragettes did the same.

Nearly ALL countries in the World use the OMOV system because it is the fairest.

The Cayman Islands premier used Singapore as an example of why we should keep the present multi-member system. I hope you read our two articles on the Singapore 2011 elections and the discontent, especially by the YOUNG voters, of how this system makes it impossible for an independent member and/or a small party to win, even one seat! One such article even said “Singapore’s current multiple voting system has also helped unknown PAP [Party] candidates enter parliament on the coat-tails of the ministers who typically “anchor” a PAP slate.”

At the end of this Editorial you will find two ads FOR the OMOV.

iNews Cayman is not being paid to place them.

We were the very first media outlet to adopt the OMOV as the best and fairest option of voting.

WE HAVE NOT CHANGED OUR VIEW.

WE STILL SAY, VOTE YES.

Joan (Watler) Wilson – grass roots Caymanian and Publisher of iNews Cayman and I, Colin Wilson, Editor in Chief, urge you to:

Vote YES on Wednesday 18 July 2012.