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Compare to what we have instead: 5 mountain lions and 10 sheep deciding what to have for dinner. Voting is by district, with each district electing representati
by tzs 2y ago
Compare to what we have instead: 5 mountain lions and 10 sheep deciding what to have for dinner. Voting is by district, with each district electing representatives to attend the meeting where dinner plans will be proposed and voted on.
The number of representatives allocated to each district is based on population, but must be a positive integer, and the dinner planing meeting is capped at 8 representatives.
Mountain lions are solitary. The 5 mountain lions live in 5 different districts. The 10 sheep all live in the same herd, which is in a 6th district.
By population then each mountain lion district should get 0.533 representatives, and the sheep district should get 5.333 representatives. But representatives must be a positive integer, so the mountain lions districts have to each get rounded up to 1. And with the meeting capped at 8 that only leaves 3 for the sheep.
- kcplate 2y agoWhich is still better than the population of 10 counties that tend to vote they same exact way every time on two different coasts separated 2500 miles deciding on a single person to represent 335M people, 50 states and countless districts in between. I am not arguing that what we have is perfect, it’s not…but direct democracy or god forbid these ranked choice and run off voting schemes don’t improve our ability to get anything but more of the same two shitty political parties and their same two shit candidates that rise to the tops of their respective political cesspools. If it were up to me, sortition would be how we select a president.
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- aragilar 2y agoRCV and multi-member works in other countries for their parliaments, I'm not sure why it wouldn't work in the US (the president is a different issue, given it's a single person with lots of power).