• SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Honestly we should set it so Wyoming has like 5 reps and then use that as a baseline. Increase the total number of reps 10 times and make each district manageable for one person to campaign in.

    This would negate the problems with the electoral college and make gerrymandering much harder to pull off.

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      1 month ago

      if we’re going to do that why even have districts and just do party list proportional voting to elect a state’s reps instead?

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        Districts are nice in that you have a local representative beholden to you(ish) that you can bring issues to.

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      An extremely large House would not be able to deliberate on laws. I could see ways to make that work, but we should be clear on what’s going to happen.

      A pretty good counterargument to this is to look at what the House does now. What passes for deliberation is mere posturing, like MTG saying Fauci should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.