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Re:Death to the Gerrymander by euyyn on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @05:19AM (#13363872)
In Spain many are proposing to get rid of districts altogether, because they severely penalize parties that aren't the two biggest (except regionalistic parties). And this is in a country where the system actually allows third parties to get seats in Congress (even if harder) - the American system is very very ill of bipartidism. Congress should be 1 person 1 vote, no matter your political preference or where you live.
Re:Death to the Gerrymander by knz on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @08:03AM (#13364491)
New Zealand has Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) where you vote for a local representative and also a party.

There are a fixed number of local representatives and the rest of the 120 available seats are made up by the total party vote. So if you won 10 seats but 25% of the party vote you would have 10 representatives and 20 list/party MP's.

It has also worked very well to give third parties more power and help keep the two main parties closer to the political center.