Basically, ie within a state - If 70% of the voters voted in the republican primary, then republicans in the state get 70% of the seats. In the primary itself, people would have ie 30 votes to give to individuals which would be the max available seats to win for the state. Then the top choices of these chosen, would be the subset for the actual seats given to that party, ie 70% * 30 = 21.
This would solve A LOT of MAJOR problems -
- ALL voters would get a representative vote THAT MATTERED. Red voters in deep blue territories would not be wasted votes anymore.
- No need for 'ranked choice voting' or others anymore. There is no reason to not just throw your true favorites a vote now.
- Creating new parties would be ALMOST INSTANTANEOUS. Simply people registering over to a new party before the primaries would basically automatically give them seats.
- Gerrymandering wouldn't affect anything anymore. No more a bunch of dem regions taking over repubs in a 51/49% result count, then one repub seat given in a 99/1% region.
- It's harder to rig the overall publicly viewable primary participation amounts.
Basically, ie within a state - If 70% of the voters voted in the republican primary, then republicans in the state get 70% of the seats. In the primary itself, people would have ie 30 votes to give to individuals which would be the max available seats to win for the state. Then the top choices of these chosen, would be the subset for the actual seats given to that party, ie 70% * 30 = 21.
This would solve A LOT of MAJOR problems -
1. ALL voters would get a representative vote THAT MATTERED. Red voters in deep blue territories would not be wasted votes anymore.
2. No need for 'ranked choice voting' or others anymore. There is no reason to not just throw your true favorites a vote now.
3. Creating new parties would be ALMOST INSTANTANEOUS. Simply people registering over to a new party before the primaries would basically automatically give them seats.
4. Gerrymandering wouldn't affect anything anymore. No more a bunch of dem regions taking over repubs in a 51/49% result count, then one repub seat given in a 99/1% region.
5. It's harder to rig the overall publicly viewable primary participation amounts.
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