Voting districts and representation

[Jonathan Buhacoff]

Proposal:

Each local, regional, state, and federal government is a voting constituency.

Candidates and ballot measures are presented to each voting constituency.

Voting districts administer elections at the local level.

All voting districts within a constituency present the same candidates and ballot measure to voters.

Each elected representative will be assigned a number of legislature votes proportional to the popular support the candidate earned in the election.

The legislature will allow more than one representative from each constituency while still assigning a number of legislature votes assigned to each constituency either equally or based on its population.

Intent:

Eliminate the possibility of influencing election outcomes by redrawing voting districts to dilute the popular support for some candidates into minority votes in multiple districts, also called gerrymandering.

Discussion:

This is an idea to solve the problem of fair representation, and specifically to eliminate the possibility of gerrymandering.

The solution to gerrymandering is in two parts:

Part one is that everyone within a constituency votes for the same candidates and ballot measures. This means regardless of how voting districts are drawn on the map, everyone is voting for the same candidates and therefore the tallies will be the same and the outcome will be the same. See also voting districts.

Part two is that instead of each constituency voting for a single representative, the constituency votes for multiple representatives and they are allocated legislature votes proportional to their popular support. This will bring an end to someone who earned only 51% of the vote pretending like they speak for everyone in their constituency when they vote a certain way in the legislature. Instead, there will be someone who earned 51% of the vote speaking for their voters, and someone who earned 49% of the vote speaking for their voters, and everyone will be represented. See also representation in the legislature.

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