re: #75 KGxvi

I’m slightly surprised there hasn’t been any effort in any state to try and move at least one chamber of the state legislatures to proportional representation.

Since state senates can no longer represent counties regardless of population, it would make a bit more sense to have one chamber with proportional representation and the other with single member districts. The flip side is that proportional representation gives the parties too much power, and that’s not really been something Americans have been willing to tolerate for the last 100 years or so.

I believe that proportional representation is prohibited by federal law, because it was being gamed by racists. That law needs to be repealed, with safeguards, of course.