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« on: September 13, 2017, 01:51:33 PM » |
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This is pretty possible, and the answer is it would work for a while until eventually the floodgates break open in a Queensland '89-style, large Democratic victory. At this point you would either see outright constitutional reform if the landslide is big enough, or, more likely, various fixes, such as breaking apart large Democratic states (especially California; 7.5 times the size of the median state, and 66 times the size of the smallest), and the drawing of new ones would not be covered by the VRA (and would only take bare majorities in the respective state legislature and Congress to enact) or shifting House elections to a national party-list system (states get to pick presidential election methods, but since Congress is the judge of its own elections, it de facto has the right to set standards, so it can mandate some form of NPV for the House).
Our last large-scale reform of the election process (the introduction of presidential primaries in the early 1970s) was done entirely not just extra-constitutionally but extra-legislatively. Once there is demand change of this type will come.
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