Complete reforms of electoral process and congressional branches

[Padfoot]

If we're completely redoing the legislative & executive branches then I would propose a more proportional system with a single legislative house and a prime minister.  Also, DC & all territories would need to choose either full statehood, be absorbed into an existing state/combine into a new state, or become independent countries.

All states would be given 1 vote + the state's % of the total US population times 500 and then rounded to the nearest tenth.  This would represent both their electoral votes and their votes in the legislature.

All states with fewer than 4 votes would elect their representatives from one multi-member statewide district.  States with 4 or more votes would elect their representatives from roughly equal population districts (some districts would have +/- 0.1 votes and would need to have a correspondingly greater/smaller population) with district size being as close to 3 votes as possible.

Each district can elect n+1 representatives where "n" is equal to the district's votes rounded to the nearest whole number.  Representatives would first run in a jungle primary where the top n+3 candidates advance to the general election.  The general election would utilize instant run-off voting until only n+1 candidates remain.  The districts votes would then be distributed proportionately among the remaining candidates.  If any candidate who has advanced to this round would receive less than 0.2 votes from their district then they are also eliminated via instant runoff and the district's votes are distributed proportionately amongst the remaining candidates.

Once all votes have been distributed then typical parliamentary rules kick in for coalition building, selecting a prime minister/cabinet, power sharing, etc.  Moving legislation forward for debate would only require a majority of votes and could not be stalled, delayed, or filibustered by any one member or group of members.

To preserve the "equality between the states" different types of legislation would still be required to garner a certain level of support from differing thresholds of members, states, or members within a state:

1. Domestic legislation would require a simply majority of votes to pass but the votes would need to come from at least 50% of the states.
2. Treaties and other international agreements would require a majority of the total votes and those votes would need to come from at least 60% of the states.
3. Constitutional amendments would require a 60% of the total votes and at least 1 full vote from 75% of the states to pass.