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This article leaves out proportional representation and single transferable vote. PR is widely used in many democracies and should be considered for the U.S. Se
by whytheam 10y ago
This article leaves out proportional representation and single transferable vote. PR is widely used in many democracies and should be considered for the U.S. Senate. Specifically, mixed member proportional which allows each district (in our case State) to elect one member to the legislature and then the rest of the 50 seats would be filled to create the closet proportion to popular support each party has. Single transferable vote, which is actually used in some democracies, would fit the House of Representatives quite well.
Duverger's law tells us that we will not see electoral diversity in the U.S. until we change the way we vote.
- dragonwriter 10y agoSTV is a PR system, just one that retains candidate-focussed preference ballots and doesn't resort to party lists for who gets elected (MMP uses candidate-centered ballots, but also uses party lists to fill the additional seats.)