I agree with proportional representation in principle, but have some concerns about implementation. How do you protect the representation of people in sparsely populated areas, when you lump them into the same district as the big cities? In your example with 8-member districts, even the 8th most popular candidate from the metropolitan centers is likely to get more votes than the top candidate from a rural region.
By the way, I also support Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) and a complete revamping of the primary election system, perhaps even eliminating primaries altogether. Taxpayers shouldn’t be funding political parties’ (quasi-private membership organizations) process for selecting candidates. And if RCV is used, it could all be done in one general election, no primaries needed.
I’m really interested in analyses of how proportional representation and RCV could work together.
This is an excellent empirical analysis of gerrymandering. You have demonstrated what a scourge it is on American politics and a principal reason why so few Congressional elections are actually competitive.
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I agree with proportional representation in principle, but have some concerns about implementation. How do you protect the representation of people in sparsely populated areas, when you lump them into the same district as the big cities? In your example with 8-member districts, even the 8th most popular candidate from the metropolitan centers is likely to get more votes than the top candidate from a rural region.
By the way, I also support Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) and a complete revamping of the primary election system, perhaps even eliminating primaries altogether. Taxpayers shouldn’t be funding political parties’ (quasi-private membership organizations) process for selecting candidates. And if RCV is used, it could all be done in one general election, no primaries needed.
I’m really interested in analyses of how proportional representation and RCV could work together.
This is an excellent empirical analysis of gerrymandering. You have demonstrated what a scourge it is on American politics and a principal reason why so few Congressional elections are actually competitive.
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