I support the amendment.
In our at-large elections, the last two seats are usually settled by arcane preference math, and that lends an advantage to the largest parties who are better positioned to coordinate strategic preference among their preferred candidates. The result is elections that are dull, difficult to follow, and unfair.
If you look at the Senate's history, there's no clear pattern where independent or minor parties are more likely to win at-large seats.
Over the past year-and-a-half, only four parties have won at-large seats (Labor, Federalists, TPP, and Democratic Republicans), and the only elected independent won the regional seat in the IDS. You have to go back to the first couple of elections after dissolution - an unusual moment in the game's history - to find independent or minor party candidates winning at-large Senate seats. (The only real exception that I'm aware of since then is Xahar.)
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Cris won as a member of Civic Renewal.
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