traininthedistance
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« on: January 21, 2014, 05:01:40 PM » |
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Ideally we would have multi-member districts elected via proportional representation (and, also, would increase the size of the House to something roughly double its current number). The districts would not all necessarily have to be the same size, but perhaps small states (i.e. less than 4 or 5 reps) would be elected on an at-large basis and large ones could be portioned into large districts that follow metro areas and/or widely-recognized geographic regions (say, the Grand Divisions of Tennessee), and would try to be within 1% of equal population.
As long as single-member FPTP is unavoidable, I favor a holistic approach that tries to come up with a score for various problems to avoid (split counties, townships, or municipalities; keepings metros, CSAs, urbanized areas together; general erosity; VRA concerns; partisan skew), and pushes plans that score well across the whole spectrum of factors. Muon's pareto optimality approach is, I think, promising, but I might allow for a little bit of extra flexibility to accommodate various local sentiments (for example, double-spanning Nassau and Suffolk to create a North Shore and South Shore district on Long Island).
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