[Election-Methods] IRV hurts racial minorities?

[James Gilmour]

Warren Smith  > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 10:58 PM
> A web page analysing this topic is here
> http://rangevoting.org/IRVraceMinorities.html

Whatever the merits or demerits of any single-winner voting system in respective of minority representation, if you are serious
about representation of minorities, you start by electing the representative assembly by a sound system of proportional
representation in which all representatives are elected from multi-member districts (upper limit: whole country = one electoral
district).  Single-winner voting systems in single-member districts should not be used to elect representative assemblies, except in
the rare situation where one or two electoral districts are so large and so sparsely populated that only a single-member district
makes sense.

James Gilmour

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