<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:26:47 -0600<br>
From: Ken & Karla <<a href="mailto:kbearman@isd.net">kbearman@isd.net</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: [EM] STV+AV<br>
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</blockquote><div><br></div><div>For a start, please configure your mail client to send plain-text or plain-text + HTML; HTML-only doesn't show up in the digest and then I have to post-process it to quote it.</div><div>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">> given that US law requires single-winner FPTP</span> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">> elections for federal representation and the major parties (who</span> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">> control the legislature and benefit greatly from FPTP) have no</span> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">> incentive to change that law.</span></blockquote>
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</span><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">[Ken B.]  That is incorrect; I know of no such law.  Each state<br></span><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">can specify its own method of electing its federal<br>
</span><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">representatives.<br></span><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">(If there is such a federal law, please cite it.)</span></blockquote><div><br></div>
<div>Single-winner is required by 2 USC Sec. 2c:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
[...] there shall be established by law a number of<br>    districts equal to the number of Representatives to which such<br>    State is so entitled, and Representatives shall be elected only<br>    from districts so established, no district to elect more than one<br>
    Representative [...]</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I can't find a proper citation for requiring FPTP in the source where I saw it; that part may be mistaken.  So that might might admit the possibility of using an alternative single-winner method within districts, but it's not at all clear to me that that would help significantly given the susceptibility of single-winner districts to gerrymandering.</div>
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