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Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @01:39PM (#16117599)
> Is there a way to cut a cake between 3 people with this sort of approach?

Cake? Maybe. Equal-population single-winner firdt-past-the-post political districts, no. But that's okay, because single-winner districts don't practically support more than two competitive parties, especially when you have separately elected statewide and national executives rather than a parliamentary system.

Of course, get rid of single-winner FPTP districts, and you not only can support more parties, you make gerrymandering mostly pointless, even if you do still have districting.

Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map by koheripbal on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @04:32PM (#16119281)
I'm starting to think FPTP is at the root of all of our problems.
Re:North Carolina Is Ordered to Redraw Its Congressional Map by spacemanmatt on Thursday January 11, 2018 @03:38AM (#16122293)
It's pretty bad if you consider the repeated action of electing candidates who do not represent nearly 50% of the electorate