With two representatives per district this is a pretty good method, if we want
a two-party system and if we accept the idea of having representatives with
different weights. Spoiler and gerrymandering related problems are greatly
reduced, and the method allows also third parties to grow.
With
On Nov 5, 2011, at 11:35 PM, election-methods-requ...@lists.electorama.com
wrote:
With two representatives per district this is a pretty good method, if we
want a two-party system and if we accept the idea of having representatives
with different weights. Spoiler and gerrymandering related
Yes. It would be a quite natural approach to first count the number of seats
that each party gets based on the number of votes that they got, and then use
the rankings and more complex counting methods within each party separately.
That would have brought the high numbers of 35 and 405 down to
In this post I discuss a proportional representation system called Interactive
Representation (IR). A brief description of the system is followed by a
discussion of some characteristics compared to traditional systems such as
single-representative districts (the dominant paradigm in the United
