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Re:Engineer's Solution: Neutral Redistricting so Reelection ... by adeaver on Thursday October 17, 2013 @11:08AM (#6565830)
We are suppose to vote for people, sadly far too many people vote along party lines regardless of the qualities of the actual people involved.
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Re:Engineer's Solution: Neutral Redistricting so Reelection ... by wadetandy on Thursday October 17, 2013 @12:05PM (#6566241)
That is still different than voting for a party. In proportional representation you would cast your ballot for e.g. The Democratic Party. If they got 54% of the vote, they would get to then appoint 54% of the representation for that district. In this way, a very heavily Tea Party district would still have representation for the democratic minority, just less.
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Re:Engineer's Solution: Neutral Redistricting so Reelection ... by dragonwriter on Thursday October 17, 2013 @01:52PM (#6566970)
> In proportional representation you would cast your ballot for e.g. The Democratic Party.

You are confusing "proportional representation" (which is a continuous-valued property of many election systems) with "party list proportional" which is a particular election system for achieving a high value of proportional representation.

Notably, Single Transferrable Vote is a system in which people vote for candidates as they do in FPTP elections (except using preference ballots), but which is designed to acheive proportional representation.

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