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Proportionate representation.
by wybiral 9y ago
Proportionate representation.
- maxerickson 9y agoProportionate along what lines? Voter parties? The interest voters express preferences for by voting? The interests voters idealize (they may vote pragmatically within existing rules)? Etc., etc. A purely algorithmic solution needs to encode preferences and how to balance them, so they need to be defined quite precisely.
- cabalamat 9y agoProportionate by whatever groups the voters self-select. If there are 13 seats then any group of 1/13th of the voters that votes for the same candidate should get that cantitate election.
- maxerickson 9y agoThat's not a district plan, it's a different way of apportioning representation. Hence my confusion.
- RightMillennial 9y agoNot that I disagree, but at what level do you establish proportional representation? At the state, county, city/town/municipality, somewhere in between? Currently, I think the boundaries are drawn ad-hoc but loosely defined by population, geography, and demographics that benefit who ever is in charge of the pen.