ProRep Coalition

That's @daviddaley.bsky.social speaking with @velshi.com.

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"If we had a more proportional system, a more proportional House, larger multi-member districts... you could really try to wipe gerrymandering off the board.’”

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I welcome the vice president's support for proportional representation.

Yes! We see #ProportionalRepresentation as the best way to address gerrymandering by far.

The game of maximizing narrow wins and minimizing blowouts doesn't work well under PR, where narrow wins result in *fewer seats* than blowout wins. District lines matter much less!

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Many voters say Congress is broken. Could proportional representation fix it? With Congress increasingly polarized, there are growing calls to replace the winner-take-all approach for House elections with a system that advocates say could better reflect the country's diversity.

ICYMI: With Congress increasingly polarized, there are calls to replace the winner-take-all approach for House elections with a "proportional representation" system. Advocates say it could eliminate gerrymandering's threat and ensure fair representation of voters of color

Checks and balances between branches don't work well in a two-party system where one party is guaranteed to have control of most of the branches.

A multi-party system via #ProportionalRepresentation does a much better job of decentralizing power as the Founders really intended.

Yes, #ProportionalRepresentation is the way.

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Democracy isn’t just about voting. It’s about representation.

If your vote doesn’t help shape the legislature, it’s just decoration.

#ProportionalRepresentation makes your vote count for real.

#ProRep #EndTheDuopoly #FairSeats #MultipartyAmerica

ProRep California Coalition | Electoral Reform & Multiparty Push Explore the coalition powering ProRep Coalition’s push for electoral reform. Learn how diverse organizations and individuals are advocating for proportional representation and a multiparty democracy i...

For what it's worth, the California chapters of the Green, Peace & Freedom, Libertarian, Forward, American Solidarity, and California National parties all joined our coalition to work towards #ProportionalRepresentation.

www.prorepcoalition.org/our-coalition

Please keep in mind that this tactic only works on closed-list systems. For open-list PR (e.g., Sweden, Belgium), the party list ranking is determined solely by the voters.

And for Proportional Ranked Choice Voting (e.g., Portland), there are no party lists at all.

What it would take to escape the two-party system Americans say they want a third party — but making it happen is tricky.

"Well, #ProportionalRepresentation is the most common system of voting, and it basically... means that parties get shares of seats in proportion to what percent of the vote they get. So if a party gets 30 percent of the vote, it gets 30 percent of the seats..."

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If you want your vote to have a real say, what you want is #ProportionalRepresentation.

Proportional representation and polarization With better representation and more equal weight given to citizens’ votes in House elections, the zero-sum nature of politics could begin to change.

Yes, exactly!

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Proportional representation and polarization With better representation and more equal weight given to citizens’ votes in House elections, the zero-sum nature of politics could begin to change.

Exactly, and political science research shows that #ProportionalRepresentation is the answer to polarization!

protectdemocracy.org/work/proport...

According to the latest PPIC statewide survey, 74% of all California adults believe more parties are needed.

Mayes ya think… maybe we need ProRep in CA…

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We agree. The two-party system really needs to die before it kills us all.

#ProportionalRepresentation #ProRep #EndTheDuopoly #EndPolarization

@fixourhouse.bsky.social is fighting to bring #ProportionalRepresentation to the US, and we're working towards bringing it to the California state legislature.

Well, @fixourhouse.bsky.social is the group working towards PR in the House of Representatives. We're focused on the California state legislature.

We're not yet aware of a movement working towards PR in the Senate, but please let us know if you hear of one.

The Case for Multiparty Presidentialism in the United States In a sweeping new review of electoral system combinations published by New America and Protect Democracy, Scott Mainwaring and Lee Drutman conclude that multiparty presidentialism is the best fit for ...

Yes, we're talking about PR and not parliamentary, and yes it can work within presidential systems like ours.

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Yes, we do, and #ProportionalRepresentation is the way forward away from the two-party deathtrap (or two-party doom loop, as @leedrutman.bsky.social calls it).

Exactly! Having to finish first in an election is way too high a bar for the alternative parties.

@fixourhouse.bsky.social is working for #ProportionalRepresentation at the federal level in the House of Representatives, and we are working on the California state legislature.

Several of us often refer to it as list PR.

#ProportionalRepresentation decentralizes power so that everybody has a say.

Authoritarians prefer centralizing power and thus predictably oppose it.

#ProportionalRepresentation is fair.

Yes, some groups that many might consider extreme, fringe, or crazy would get representation that they might not have now.

BUT!

The only policies that pass will be ones that have broad support, and that's in stark contrast to what we have right now.

Two images. The top one illustrates the current system Single-Member Districts with Winner-Take-All Elections using a diverse pie chart with four slices becoming a single circle of the color of the largest slice, and then a person icon of that color. The bottom image illustrates Multi-Member Districts with Proportional Representation with the same starting pie-chart that becomes a pie-chart equally divided between the largest three slices, and then three people icons of those three colors.

If 40% of voters support a party, that party should get 40% of seats.

That’s not radical. That’s math.

And it’s how #ProportionalRepresentation works.

Yes, finishing 1st in an election is too high a bar for smaller parties. We need to move away from winner-take-all elections so that 2nd, 3rd, 4th-place finishes also win seats. Then we'd *all* get fair representation.

#ProportionalRepresentation #ProRep #EndTheDuopoly

Why Electoral Reform is Key to the Abundance Agenda Proportional representation would provide stronger incentives to pursue the ambitious projects that the abundance agenda envisions.

I jump into the abundance discourse in this new post on why the US needs to upgrade its electoral system to proportional representation if it wants to build big and build fairly.

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It's very true that we need #ProportionalRepresentation now.

We're doing our best to make it happen now, but realistically, it may take a while.

Based on the "If California [or Any US State] Had 6 Political Parties" quiz (available from link below), I'd be a member of and/or vote Green New Deal Party. Wish it existed! How about you?