Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

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• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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• pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  there are voting systems that take representation into account… generally you have your representatives that you vote for, and another number to “fill the gaps”… so you have the people who represent your area, and then others who the parties put forward based on their proportional vote… they don’t represent a district/area, but the party… so the idea is that if a minority party gets 10% of the vote, they should have 10% of the representation - districts be damned… philosophy is more important than land

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