[EM] Juho reply, 21 Feb., 1053 GMT

[Dave Ketchum]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:28:40 +0200 Juho wrote:
> On Feb 22, 2007, at 5:50 , Dave Ketchum wrote:
> 
>>STAY AWAY from US Presidential elections.  The Electoral College  
>>offers too many complications to live with for this effort.
> 
> 
> Ok, let it be UK then, electing a MP (excluding at least the Scottish  
> Parliament to stay in the two-party domain). :-)
> 
> Juho
> 
The above was the only race that would include its complications.

Every 2 years 1/3 of our states each elect a Senator.

Every 2 years each Congressional district (presently 435) elects a member 
of Congress (more comparable with MPs).

Thus about 450 races every 2 years, controlled by individual states.  Can 
choose whether to avoid years with Presidential elections, but they do not 
HAVE to use the same methods.

Creating a district from all or part of a state for electing multiple 
members of Congress?  Doable by a state, but permissibility seems to be a 
national question.

Of course each state has other races every year.
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