Kansas abortion vote

Weeeelllll...maybe not. If you elect, say, five House Members statewide and you vote for each member as a "division" you've already diluted minority voting power sufficiently to guarantee that no minority candidate will ever be elected.

 

You can go for cumulative voting. Off hand I don't know whether that's constitutional.

 

Like the parliamentary system, if the state gets 10 representatives and the statewide vote was 10% Libertarian, 50% Republican and 40% Democrat then the Libertarian party would get to appoint 1 person, Republicans would appoint 5 and Democrats would appoint 4.

 

Voting on Party Lists. That's how Israel does it.

Point is, that's a policy choice. Israelis find that they are governed to an outsized extent by a small, militant, deeply unpopular minority. Is that better than our system?

As I said, how we vote is a political question and gerrymandering is in the eye of the beholder.

 

Also, the Party List system gives enormous power to the Party Leadership who decides who is on the List and in what order. Not very representative really.

 

Sounds very Chinese...

 

But it IS very Canadian! True, you have "ridings" but the Parliamentary system in Canada is still very much "Party discipline" oriented.

 

Yes - our system is quite Chinese, in some of its more inscrutable ways. More or less, depending who is in power.

 

A little like China, run by the Swiss. Or the reverse.

 

Whereas WE have no discernable Party discipline. The Canadian Party Leadership can strip a Member of his Party membership. Not so here. I can register as I wish and run in a primary under the party flag I choose and if I win I am that party's candidate whether the party likes it or not. Happens a lot around here, too.