The idea of an appropriate size circle around candidates home (or
home district) sounds like a pretty safe and simple approach. That
gives also the voters a natural explanation to why some of the
familiar candidates are on the list and some not.
Dynamic districts may also be seen to fix something important. If the
district borders are considered artificial the circle based approach
moves the borders further away, and as a result also the problem of
artificial borders (in the sense that one can not vote for and be
represented by one's neighbour) may mostly fade away.
One more approach to this would be to provide "perfect" continuous
geographical proportionality. One would guarantee political and
geographical proportionality at the same time. One would try to
minimize the distance to the closest representative from each voter
and make the number of represented voters equal to all
representatives. In short, distribution of representatives would be
close to the distribution of the voters (while still maintaining also
political proportionality).
Juho
On Aug 27, 2008, at 1:41 , Raph Frank wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Juho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Aug 26, 2008, at 12:53 , Raph Frank wrote:
There could be some practical problems like all candidates of some
party
picking districts where that party has largest support. And if
that would
seem probable they might then try to find districts where there
are no other
competing candidates of the same party. This could lead to
instability, or
alternatively to party telling each candidate which districts to
pick.
If candidates can appear lots of polling stations (i.e. 5 times as
many as are needed for a quota), then there should be reasonable
overlap no matter what the party leadership wants.
Maybe the compromise that they must pick a boundary curve rather than
just indicate which polling stations is reasonable.
Also, the logistics for this are pretty complex, so it isn't likely to
be implemented.
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