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

Michael Ossipoff email9648742 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 23:13:46 PDT 2012


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>>> I also note that of course the differences in regional disproportionality due to the sizes of multi-member districts are much smaller than regional >disproportionality caused by single-member districts.
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>> Not a valid comparison. Single member districts aren't intended or
>> meant to be proportional.
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> I meant regional proportionality (not political proportionality), i.e. making the number of representatives per population equal in each area.
>

In that case, then single member districts, drawn with equal
population, can have perfectly equal regional proportionality, as
exactly equal as desired. So your statement quoted at the top of this
post is incorrect. Equal district representation per person.

Mike Ossipoff



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