Would you support multi-member districts in this situation?

[Sol]

We heard a lot of critiques from conservatives about the horrors of splitting Mobile after the Alabama redistricting case.

Would y'all support using multi-member districts like so? This district would elect the top-two vote getters (after a partisan primary; a jungle primary could risk running afoul of minority disenfranchisement).

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

We heard a lot of critiques from conservatives about the horrors of splitting Mobile after the Alabama redistricting case.

Would y'all support using multi-member districts like so? This district would elect the top-two vote getters (after a partisan primary; a jungle primary could risk running afoul of minority disenfranchisement).

Perhaps you could use limited voting. Two seats filled, but people only get one vote.
In one of my projects last year I used something similar. County-based state legislature seats, with 1-6 giving people one vote, 7-12 two, 13-18 three, and so on...

[Oryxslayer]

How many votes would you get? In Idaho and Arizona, which do have MMD districts, you get two votes cause you are electing two candidates. In this instance that would just mean two White guys.





And the alternative can still be a bad outcome. These are Forsyth and Cumberland County NC Commissioner maps. Both initially At-large, both forced to provide access for minorities. Both Reliably Blue. Both of their AA districts elect 2, the outer seats elect 4 in Forsyth and 3 in Cumberland. There are also a handful of at-large seats that do reflect the overall lean, which are the only reason neither have been sued for such maps. In Cumberland the outer district is Biden +1.6 and 50% white, in Forsyth is Trump+0.8 and 70.7% White. In this way minority voters are packed into only having influence over a minuity of seats, and only the Cumberland gerrymander has started to see Dems get elected to the outer district through crossover support.

[Sol]

The idea is that you'd do a regular party primary and then elect the top two vote getters in the general election, which barring some wild 3rd party or independent overperformance would almost always be a Republican and a Democrat. You get the same result as one VRA and one non-VRA district but with a district which is more cohesive and compact.