⸘Ŭalabio‽ wrote:
The total number of elected officials in the USA is about half a
million elected seats which is greater than the squareroot of 300
million.
The cuberoot of 300 million is:
669
The United States House Of Representatives should have about 700
Representatives. It is too bad that the United States House Of
Representatives froze its number of member almost e century ago. If
I could reform the United States Of America, this is what I would do:
Expand the House Of Representatives to 1024.
Why? 1024 is much greater than 700. Even if we assume a perfect turnout,
the cube root of 2x 300 million is 843, not 1024.
Use the SplitLineAlgorithm
http://rangevoting.org/GerryExamples.html
for redistricting the country. Redistrict without regard for
state-boundaries (all politics are local). Have Representatives
elected by ScoreVoting.
Why not just dissolve the problem by using a multimember method?
Furthermore, using range/score for electing representatives makes the
outcome less proportional/representative, as I've mentioned elsewhere;
it would make the house of representatives more like the Senate, except
population-weighted.
For representing the states, we have the Senate. Increase the number
of senators to a score (20) per state. Let each state vote for its
senators using Asset-Voting so that its Senators truly represent the
state.
Create a new House Of Proportional Representation with 1.000 (one
thousand) members elected by AssetVoting.
This seems quite unwieldy. You have three houses, each of at least a
thousand members. One is population-weighted and majoritarian, one is
state-weighted and proportional (if Asset is proportional), and the
third is population-weighted and proportional (again, if Asset is). What
advantage does that have over two houses?
The President would be directly elected using ScoreVoting.
A simple majority in each house would be necessary to pass
legislation. By simple majority, I mean half of the number of seats
for the chamber.
No filibustering is allowed, but if the equal to or greater than the
square-root of the office is missing then a quorum does not exist.
The square root of 1000 is just about 32. This seems to indicate that 32
out of 1000 (3.2%) could just leave and keep the body without quorum,
which in turn seems fragile.
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