Outer Sparta wrote:Nobel Hobos 2 wrote:
Or virtual districts, with no map at all. People would choose which "district" they're in by the candidate they want to vote for, with preference voting in case their favorite doesn't make it. A candidate who gets the minimum would be elected but only have a weak vote, while candidates with more support from voters would have a stronger vote in the House. Individual members with more popular support would be more powerful there, which makes more sense to me than voters having to choose the lesser of two evils every time.
Of course it's impossible. Representatives all have equal voting power in the House.
Or just go proportional voting for each state. Then you'll have list politicians and no need for districts (unless you do MMP).
But every elected member has an equally powerful vote. I think that's a bad idea that should go: not every one of them has equal popularity, in fact without putting it to a vote, all we know is that each one is more popular than the loser they ran against.
Also, people who don't vote aren't represented and we should stop pretending they are!