[EM] PR favoring racial minorities

[Juho]

The idea of an appropriate size circle around candidates home (or  
home district) sounds like a pretty safe and simple approach. That  
gives also the voters a natural explanation to why some of the  
familiar candidates are on the list and some not.

Dynamic districts may also be seen to fix something important. If the  
district borders are considered artificial the circle based approach  
moves the borders further away, and as a result also the problem of  
artificial borders (in the sense that one can not vote for and be  
represented by one's neighbour) may mostly fade away.

One more approach to this would be to provide "perfect" continuous  
geographical proportionality. One would guarantee political and  
geographical proportionality at the same time. One would try to  
minimize the distance to the closest representative from each voter  
and make the number of represented voters equal to all  
representatives. In short, distribution of representatives would be  
close to the distribution of the voters (while still maintaining also  
political proportionality).

Juho


On Aug 27, 2008, at 1:41 , Raph Frank wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Juho <juho4880 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Aug 26, 2008, at 12:53 , Raph Frank wrote:
>> There could be some practical problems like all candidates of some  
>> party
>> picking districts where that party has largest support. And if  
>> that would
>> seem probable they might then try to find districts where there  
>> are no other
>> competing candidates of the same party. This could lead to  
>> instability, or
>> alternatively to party telling each candidate which districts to  
>> pick.
>
> If candidates can appear lots of polling stations (i.e. 5 times as
> many as are needed for a quota), then there should be reasonable
> overlap no matter what the party leadership wants.
>
> Maybe the compromise that they must pick a boundary curve rather than
> just indicate which polling stations is reasonable.
>
> Also, the logistics for this are pretty complex, so it isn't likely to
> be implemented.


	
	
		
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