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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
And of course, if one argues that the proportion of Democratic reps should roughly approximate the proportion of people who voted for Democrats, then one might want to re-look at the 2000 presidential election and wonder if that was a democratic process.
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Whiff (as per TM). There's no electoral college for congressional elections, plus the thesis is just a perpetuation of the existing back-and-forth games. Are you arguing that proportional representation is a bad thing?
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Someone, I think it was the Houston Chronicle, suggested that a computer randomly draw maps without political input. Put in the geography and VRA requirements in and go with whatever the computer spits out. I think that everyone in the legislature would pass out if that happened.
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That would work, I think. Of course, the next fight would be over how to translate broad VRA mandates into discrete instructions.
