As this isn't something I really want it's going to be hard to get
motivated to work it out.
That said I think the way to go about it is to make unbiased districts
by my current district, then pick one district with the highest
proportion of the desired minority to elevate and adjust all the
If one of the requirements is to secure representation within a state for the
significant (racial) minorities within that state,
would it not make much more sense to start with a voting system that had such
an objective rather than engage in deliberate
distortion of district boundaries in an atte
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Brian Olson wrote:
> As this isn't something I really want it's going to be hard to get motivated
> to work it out.
> That said I think the way to go about it is to make unbiased districts by my
> current district, then pick one district with the highest proportion
James Gilmour wrote:
If one of the requirements is to secure representation within a state for the
significant (racial) minorities within that state,
would it not make much more sense to start with a voting system that had such
an objective rather than engage in deliberate
distortion of distric
Yes, Bob, I fully appreciate the opposition to PR. I have been active in this
field for more than 45 years myself and the Electoral
Reform Society has been campaigning for 125 years, and still we have not
achieved our main objective (though we have had some
smaller successes along the way).
I f
Oh yes, I'm very much in favor of Proportional Representation methods.
But for the foreseeable future we will have problems with drawing
districts and drawing better districts, and it's a kinda interesting
problem to tinker with too.
And I have this notion that it would be good to have a bica
