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> Now suppose you are tasked with drawing 5 districts for this region. Or, we could go with proportional representation, make it a single district, and now we
by rndmize 9y ago
> Now suppose you are tasked with drawing 5 districts for this region.
Or, we could go with proportional representation, make it a single district, and now we can reasonably expect to get 2-3 blue reps and 2-3 red ones, handling both the districting problem and efficiency/fairness problem in one go.
- maxxxxx 9y agoYes. Much better.
- shadofx 9y agoHow would that deal with popular independents? Would they get two seats if they pull 40% of the electorate?
- erentz 9y agoUnder an STV you're still voting for people. The independent with 40% of the vote would be elected and then a proportion of their unneeded votes would be transferred to the subsequent candidates on those voting papers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote#Finding_the_winners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote#Findi...