[EM] STV and weighted positional methods

[Jonathan Lundell]

On Feb 1, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Kathy Dopp wrote:

> I suppose district seats is a good alternative that tends to represent
> minority groups who live dispersed in different districts.

The perverse effect of using district elections to achieve minority  
representation is that it depends entirely on the existence of  
sufficiently segregated district that at-large minorities are also  
district majorities. We shouldn't have to depend on geographic  
segregation of voters to achieve fair representation.