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But you could have multi-member districts and get the good without the bad. pseudonymous in nc says:
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He also put forward multi-member constituencies using the single transferable vote.
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Nearly every vote cast accrues to a winning political candidate, in multi-member constituencies.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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More Reps make ideas such as multi-member districts possible, increase the responsiveness of those reps to their electorate, and indirectly dilute the disproportionate effect of the Senate on the Electoral College.
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In this single transferable vote system, voters rank favored candidates in order of choice in multi-member super-districts, and as many voters as possible participate in electing one of their top-ranked candidates.
Rob Richie: Let's End Gerrymandering With Fair Voting for Congress Rob Richie 2011
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Most small democracies with PR have significantly higher thresholds or multi-member constituencies.
Matthew Yglesias » Extremism and Proportional Representation 2009
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Historically, there were some multi-member districts before that law was past.
Matthew Yglesias » Diverse Representation Without Gerrymandering 2010
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It would, however, be relatively easy to fix the legislative language in order to make multi-member districts a way for states to meet their VRA requirements.
Matthew Yglesias » Diverse Representation Without Gerrymandering 2010
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Plenty of other parliamentary democracies have stable governments – the key is how the representatives are elected: single member or multi-member; first-past-the-post or proportional representation and if the latter, then how is it implemented – a list system with a high thresshold?
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This is why, in general, I think the best system for the US would be to have multi-member districts elected by Single Transferable Vote.
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