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What would you do instead? Have all house seats state wide elections?
by vanattab 10y ago
What would you do instead? Have all house seats state wide elections?
- frgtpsswrdlame 10y agoProportional representation probably
- jandrese 10y agoThe downside of that is it makes all but one or two of the seats noncompetitive. The voters can't oust one politician specifically unless that politician is already on the party's shitlist and the voters manage to move the needle enough to make them lose a seat. Most of the candidates end up being completely safe.
- frgtpsswrdlame 10y agoPerhaps we could combine it with some sort of ranking primary.
- kalleboo 10y agoSome election systems let you rank candidates in addition to the party (e.g. Sweden lets you in a limited fashion)