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I would like for there to be a greater discourse on "true representation". When I look at citizens per representative I absolutely don't believe it's representa
by someone7x 10y ago
I would like for there to be a greater discourse on "true representation". When I look at citizens per representative I absolutely don't believe it's representative.
I think for congress it's near 600,000 or something now. In LA we have the county board of supervisors, and that's a group of 5 people running a city of 10,000,000
I find these numbers mind-blowingly unrepresentative, nowhere near "true representation".
- denzil_correa 10y agoOne radical proposal would be to pick a representative of the population (Read : Stratified Sampling) and allow them to vote.
- karmelapple 10y agoJuries - chosen at random and vetted from a representative sampling of the population - choose whether a defendant is guilty or not. It's part of the civic duty of a US citizen / resident. Could we make choosing people to choose whether a law should be passed or not a similar responsibility? "Oh I have to take a week off to go to Washington DC, there's some law I have to hear testimony on and decide the outcome." First I've heard of such an idea!
- r00fus 10y agoWe would need to be very sure that the sample individuals are, in fact, chosen randomly. Every input to elections is a potential vulnerability; it's best of those processes are participatory and verifiable as opposed to black-box.
- messick 10y agoSince you mention 10,000,000 people, you are confusing Los Angeles County with the City of Los Angeles. There may be 5 County Supervisors, but the city has a mayor and 15 council members. The other cities (Burbank, Santa Clarita, Glendale, Long Beach, etc.) also have their own mayors and city councils and whatnot.