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Re:The Supreme Court discussed my research on gerrymandering... by rndmize on Friday October 06, 2017 @02:25PM (#15419086)
Agreed. There's been some movement towards better voting systems, but proportional voting seems consistently to be bottom of the barrel of priorities.

http://www.fairvote.org/ - Promotes IRV, and I think they were in favor of proportional representation, but I can't seem to find the pages now (go figure).

http://www.equal.vote/ - Promotes a customized score voting system, which seems more solid than IRV from my reading, but no mention of proportional representation.

It's too bad, really, I'd be hugely in favor if something like this came up in a CA statewide ballot/proposition.

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Re:The Supreme Court discussed my research on gerrymandering... by stonesixone on Friday October 06, 2017 @02:34PM (#15419183)
Proportional representation is definitely a big part of FairVote's agenda. They have a bill in Congress right now around electing members of Congress from multi-member districts using STV -- of which IRV is the single-winner variant. It is called the Fair Representation Act:

http://www.fairvote.org/the_fair_representation_act_has_been...

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