> > Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:26:47 -0600 > From: Ken & Karla <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [EM] STV+AV > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/attachments/20120201/80db7c3a/attachment-0001.htm > > >
For a start, please configure your mail client to send plain-text or plain-text + HTML; HTML-only doesn't show up in the digest and then I have to post-process it to quote it. > given that US law requires single-winner FPTP > elections for federal representation and the major parties (who > control the legislature and benefit greatly from FPTP) have no > incentive to change that law. > [Ken B.] That is incorrect; I know of no such law. Each state > can specify its own method of electing its federal > representatives. > (If there is such a federal law, please cite it.) Single-winner is required by 2 USC Sec. 2c: > [...] there shall be established by law a number of > districts equal to the number of Representatives to which such > State is so entitled, and Representatives shall be elected only > from districts so established, no district to elect more than one > Representative [...] I can't find a proper citation for requiring FPTP in the source where I saw it; that part may be mistaken. So that might might admit the possibility of using an alternative single-winner method within districts, but it's not at all clear to me that that would help significantly given the susceptibility of single-winner districts to gerrymandering.
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