On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 02:50 -0400, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: > Gerrymandering uses the systemic disenfranchisement of voters through > district elections to skew representation. That's all. Eliminate > district representation and gerrymandering becomes impossible. > More specifically, gerrymandering exploits the wasted vote effect by systematically concentrating wasted votes among a specific group of people. As a result, you can get rid of gerrymandering by any means which lessens the wasted vote effect. There's no need for asset voting in particular - any form of proportional representation with larger district magnitude will handle the wasted vote effect.
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