[EM] Redistricting, now with racial demographics

[Brian Olson]

Oh yes, I'm very much in favor of Proportional Representation methods.  
But for the foreseeable future we will have problems with drawing  
districts and drawing better districts, and it's a kinda interesting  
problem to tinker with too.
And I have this notion that it would be good to have a bicameral  
legislature with one house elected at-large PR and one elected from  
single member locality districts.

On Jul 18, 2009, at 10:27 AM, James Gilmour wrote:

> If one of the requirements is to secure representation within a  
> state for the significant (racial) minorities within that state,
> would it not make much more sense to start with a voting system that  
> had such an objective rather than engage in deliberate
> distortion of district boundaries in an attempt to overcome the  
> deficiencies of a voting system designed for a completely different
> purpose?