6/ So, anyway, if we want to comply w the Voting Rights Act and related court cases, sometimes we have to gerrymander. But let's imagine a world without that Act. >>>
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Try this: X = [total voters divided by 400, rounding any fractions up] to produce 399 House seats. We cast our votes for the person closest aligned on the ballot. Candidates can transfer to someone with less than X to get to exactly X. Only 0.25% of voters not rep'd.
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Agree that insisting on nice round districts for roundness' sake is dumb, and voters should be organized by interest. The argument for round districts is that they're harder to game for electoral advantage. I expect most complaints are treating stringy districts as a proxy 1/
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for this kind of attack. California had a big redistricting focused on voter interest that decreased the democratic advantage in favor of communities of interest; this is good, even if it's stringy (I haven't compared the stringiness)
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phyle = sovereign, but decentralized administrative unit, but decentralized = ?
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This is why I'd prefer geographically compact districts *only* for local politicians whose primary goal is to set policy within that geographic area. Also multi-member districts with proportional representation, though that's not a tweet-sized argument.
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Sounds a bit like corporatism, the actual definition.
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I forget the details of MiaHM's replacement system but they had some / all at-large reps, right? Obviously trade-offs to all systems but I do like the logic of "if you can reach X voters asking for it, you get a vote" for the House part of the system.
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I do still think fixed lines are useful, precisely to create the alternate balance for the Senate from some fixed lines not as easily shifted by population concentration swings. Representation easy; control hard.
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