Entries Categorized with "Cumulative Voting"

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• South Carolina: The Super District Alternative

  • Posted: July 22, 2011
  • Author(s): Jais Mehaji, Super Districts
  • Categories: Choice Voting/Proportional Representation, Proportional Voting, Redistricting, Cumulative Voting

  Redistricting ensures that political district lines reflect population changes in the U.S. Census every ten years so that each district has the same number of voters per seat in a district.  South Carolina is in the midst of redistricting and, as with most states, it’s become complicated and increasingly controversial and partisan. As explained in our recent post on Michigan, FairVote proposes an alternative to the winner-take-all system that has plagued the redistricting process, and opened it up to gerrymandering, partisan bickering, and opportunism.

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• Utah Redistricting: Avoid controversy with a statewide plan for House seats

  • Posted: May 25, 2011
  • Author(s): Dean Searcy
  • Categories: Home, Choice Voting/Proportional Representation, Proportional Voting, Cumulative Voting, FairVote

  Following the 2010 Census, Utah is gaining another Congressional seat for a total of four seats. As might be expected, the addition of a fourth seat has thrown the state legislature into partisan conflicts because the strongly Republican state legislature is seeking to dismantle the more Democratic concentration in the second district by cutting it into three pieces. Senate President Michael Waddoups wants to draw lines north to south instead of focusing on compactness, leaving Democrats concerned the new plan will divide their county into three parts and weaken their meager base that helps them elect Democrat Jim Matheson to the U.S. House. Clearly, partisanship is an issue -- one that the state could avoid by adopting a proportional voting in a statewide race.

   

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• New Mexico Redistricting: Super Districts for U.S. House

  • Posted: May 24, 2011
  • Author(s): Dean Searcy
  • Categories: Home, Choice Voting/Proportional Representation, Proportional Voting, Cumulative Voting, FairVote

  When it comes to the complexities of redistricting, New Mexico is no exception. On May 14^th, It's legislative leaders named an 18-member committee to work on the monumental task. In the past, several Congressional redistricting maps have ended up in the courts due to fights over partisanship and incumbent protection - leaving the judicial system to redraw the lines. In the 1960s, however, New Mexico elected its U.S. House seats at-large - and should do so again in a single "super district," but this time witih a proportional voting system providing fairer representation.

   

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• Debunking the Myths about Port Chester

  • Posted: June 25, 2010
  • Author(s): Alec Slatky
  • Categories: Proportional Voting, Cumulative Voting

  Port Chester's historic Board of Trustees election this past month has drawn national attention for its use of cumulative voting. But the amount of misinformation found in the media coverage is high, so FairVote would like to correct some of the most common fallacies.

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