[EM] IIAC. Juho: Census re-districting instead of PR for allocating seats to districts.

Michael Ossipoff email9648742 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 12 17:06:12 PDT 2012


IIAC:

Speaking of adding a candidate is more motivationally clear, and has
more emotional impact.

Speaking of removing a candidate makes for a briefer, clearer definition.
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Juho:

You know, for allocating seats to districts, it isn't necessary to
settle for the inequality in district representation per person that
goes with any PR allocation method--an inequality that is especially
great with small districts.

Instead, you could just do census-based redistricting after each
census. Divide the country into equal districts, using Band-Rectangle
districting, or maybe one of the more complicatedly-defined and
computationally intensive methods, if that's your taste.

Though census-based re-districting is usually discussed for
single-member districts, there's no reason why it couldn't be used for
multi-member districts.

Mike Ossipoff



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