<div dir="auto">Yes, that federal law doesn’t prevent states from using PR to elect their legislators.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So I suggest that PR be included in state electoral reform proposal-packages.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But single-winner reform, being a less drastic & fundamental change, is more feasible sooner.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Enactability soon is very important.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:kdbearman@gmail.com">kdbearman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">On 4/5/2024 4:33 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote:<br>
> right now there is just Democrat and Republican in the U.S. that have <br>
> state primaries<br>
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[KB] At the moment, Minnesota has three "major" parties. (We had four <br>
until the 2022 election.) So each of them is entitled by law to be on <br>
primary ballots, including the Presidential Nominating Primary we had on <br>
Super Tuesday.<br>
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The continued existence of major party status for the third of them, <br>
however, is subject to a MN Supreme Court case that's pending. It <br>
should be decided before the timelines for our August statewide primary.<br>
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On 4/5/2024 5:32 PM, Michael Ossipoff wrote:<br>
> Many EM members are in the U.S., where multi-member <br>
> congressional-districts are illegal.<br>
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[KB] Yes, but multi-member state legislative districts are legal to my <br>
knowledge, at least in some states. And gerrymandered state <br>
legislatures are a serious problem for democracy in a lot of states.<br>
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- Ken Bearman, Minneapolis MN<br>
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