Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map
by dbatten on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @11:48AM
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Is it? I'm admittedly fairly ignorant on how other countries run their election systems, but... geographic representation seems uncommon (lots of parliamentary systems) and sophisticated solutions to drawing districts within countries that have geographic representation would have to be even more rare.
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Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map
by sangnoir on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @12:45PM
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I am familiar with Parliamentary systems of 5 countries (Britain & former colonies) and they are mostly geographic, to my knowledge. Each Members of Parliament is voted in by voters residing within a geographic region/ward.
Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map
by dbatten on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @01:47PM
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Interesting... looks like a lot of countries with parliamentary systems use proportional instead of geographic representation... but not the UK or Canada. Today I learned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation#Li...
Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map
by taejo on Thursday January 11, 2018 @09:42AM
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And some countries manage to achieve proportional representation while still giving each district their own choice of representative (e.g. Mixed-Member Proportional Representation in Germany and New Zealand).