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Imagine someone goes into the voting booth, they see a list of parties, each of which has two candidates running. They vote for a single candidate from one of the parties, and move on. After the election is conducted, all of the votes are tallied up, and the winning candidate for each party is sent to represent that party. The votes nationwide for each party, both the winning and losing candidate, are tallied up, and 500 of the nation's 2000 seats are divided between them proportionately as part of a party list system. Another 500 seats are divided up among the parties for the next three elections. Each party divides the country up into its own representative districts based off of the number of seats that it had won in the previous three elections. If they had won 200, 150, and 100, then they would have 450 gueranteed seats in the next election, on top of however many of the 500 party list seats that they won. This party would then divide the country into 450 districts, each with a roughly equal number of that party's voters, for the next election. Parties looking to gain power can run without candidates, and if they manage to get enough votes they will be awarded party list seats and seats in future elections. This does have some pretty significant downsides, it's very vulnerable to voter suppression, for example, and it seems like it could encourage fracturing political parties(though I am not sure if the would necessarily be a terrible thing, it really just depends). But it is something that I came up with while trying to solve the problem of "regional representation is good, but gerrymandering is bad. How do you have regional representation without gerrymandering?" And the answer I came up with was "remove the ability to gerrymannder."
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q-drop interpretation based laws
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Oct 31, 2020 04:43
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$$$ based voting system where the more $'s you have the more votes you get but it is disguised as a democracy *takes off fedora*
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Oct 31, 2020 04:55
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