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Title: Congressional Method District with a twist Post by: defe07 on April 06, 2008, 04:41:16 PM I just thought about this the other day. Why not have the Maine-Nebraska system but with a modification? So, here it goes: each Congressional District wouldn't get 1 EV, but would get a weighed EV, with a minimum of 0.5 EV. Now in states with 3 EV, maybe divide the state into thirds (use legislative districts for example) and group them up and give each electoral district a minimum of 0.5 EV. I think this could help weed out the misrepresentation. Come up with some quota (1 EV per n number of people) or something. It's just an idea here. Thanks! :)
Title: Re: Congressional Method District with a twist Post by: Verily on April 06, 2008, 08:45:03 PM ...Or you could get rid of the Electoral College. Why do you keep coming up with ridiculously complicated patches for it instead?
Title: Re: Congressional Method District with a twist Post by: defe07 on April 07, 2008, 12:12:11 AM I don't know, maybe I like to strain my brain :P I would like for voters to be given 2 votes and they can vote for 2 candidates.
Title: Re: Congressional Method District with a twist Post by: jimrtex on April 07, 2008, 03:59:12 PM I just thought about this the other day. Why not have the Maine-Nebraska system but with a modification? So, here it goes: each Congressional District wouldn't get 1 EV, but would get a weighed EV, with a minimum of 0.5 EV. Now in states with 3 EV, maybe divide the state into thirds (use legislative districts for example) and group them up and give each electoral district a minimum of 0.5 EV. I think this could help weed out the misrepresentation. Come up with some quota (1 EV per n number of people) or something. It's just an idea here. Thanks! :) Under such a scheme, Nebraska would be divided into 5 electoral districts. Title: Re: Congressional Method District with a twist Post by: DWPerry on April 07, 2008, 06:32:17 PM I just thought about this the other day. Why not have the Maine-Nebraska system but with a modification? So, here it goes: each Congressional District wouldn't get 1 EV, but would get a weighed EV, with a minimum of 0.5 EV. Now in states with 3 EV, maybe divide the state into thirds (use legislative districts for example) and group them up and give each electoral district a minimum of 0.5 EV. I think this could help weed out the misrepresentation. Come up with some quota (1 EV per n number of people) or something. It's just an idea here. Thanks! :) Under such a scheme, Nebraska would be divided into 5 electoral districts. I like it, as long as the districts are not in anyway gerrymandered. Title: Re: Congressional Method District with a twist Post by: muon2 on April 08, 2008, 12:05:58 AM I just thought about this the other day. Why not have the Maine-Nebraska system but with a modification? So, here it goes: each Congressional District wouldn't get 1 EV, but would get a weighed EV, with a minimum of 0.5 EV. Now in states with 3 EV, maybe divide the state into thirds (use legislative districts for example) and group them up and give each electoral district a minimum of 0.5 EV. I think this could help weed out the misrepresentation. Come up with some quota (1 EV per n number of people) or something. It's just an idea here. Thanks! :) Under such a scheme, Nebraska would be divided into 5 electoral districts. I like it, as long as the districts are not in anyway gerrymandered. That's the tricky part. Gerrymandering is inevitable unless there is a firm use of an external group to make the maps, such as used in IA. Title: Re: Congressional Method District with a twist Post by: DWPerry on April 08, 2008, 01:53:54 AM I just thought about this the other day. Why not have the Maine-Nebraska system but with a modification? So, here it goes: each Congressional District wouldn't get 1 EV, but would get a weighed EV, with a minimum of 0.5 EV. Now in states with 3 EV, maybe divide the state into thirds (use legislative districts for example) and group them up and give each electoral district a minimum of 0.5 EV. I think this could help weed out the misrepresentation. Come up with some quota (1 EV per n number of people) or something. It's just an idea here. Thanks! :) Under such a scheme, Nebraska would be divided into 5 electoral districts. I like it, as long as the districts are not in anyway gerrymandered. That's the tricky part. Gerrymandering is inevitable unless there is a firm use of an external group to make the maps, such as used in IA. I support using Independent Commissions drawing ALL districts. The commission would not have any data except population. Demographics such as age, race, voting trends/political affiliation would not be used. Entire counties should be kept in a district, except when the population is too large, then only 1 or 2 counties should be divided. Districts should have as close a population total as possible, I would suggest a 3% variable as being acceptable. Districts should be drawn starting at one corner of a given state, and then working towards the opposite corner, that way, you eliminate the desire to break counties apart. (example: Florida would start by drawing district 1 on the Panhandle and finish with the Keys or Miami in the final district; PA would start in Philly and end in Erie) |