Gerrymandering with geographically compact districts

Re:Gerrymandering with geographically compact districts by dragonwriter on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @08:08PM (#15966072)

> I don't think that's something you can really do with voting systems

You can sometimes, you can't others.

> Lots of voting systems are based around the same input assumptions, i.e., people are submitting a rank-order of preferences

But FPTP is not based on that input, so changing from FPTP to a more proportional system (many of which rely on that kind of input) provided a clear opportunity to have a clean break without false familiarity.

> And nothing's saying you'd have to switch to PLACE from STV rather than from FPTP.

The false familiarity is FPTP -> PLACE.

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Re:Gerrymandering with geographically compact districts by Sniffnoy on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @08:44PM (#15966295)

Ah! I misunderstood. You're talking about the possibility of "check one, go by that candidate's endorsed ballot". (Something that could really be added to just about any voting system; I hadn't really considered it as essential to PLACE in particular.) Yeah, that's an interesting point against that feature, then. Hadn't considered that.

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