On Feb 1, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Kathy Dopp wrote:
I suppose district seats is a good alternative that tends to represent minority groups who live dispersed in different districts.
The perverse effect of using district elections to achieve minority representation is that it depends entirely on the existence of sufficiently segregated district that at-large minorities are also district majorities. We shouldn't have to depend on geographic segregation of voters to achieve fair representation.
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