"Despite a long history of use in our elections, proportional voting is new to many Americans. The concept is simple: Like-minded voters can pool their votes together to elect representatives in proportion to their level of support. The result is multi-seat legislative districts with lawmakers who can represent the majority AND the minority of voters.
Proportional voting provides a sharp contrast to the redistricting process under way around the nation. Partisan mapmakers are re-shuffling neighborhoods as they seek to effectively gerrymander outcomes of most congressional, state and local legislative elections for the next decade."
Eliminate winner-take-all to broaden representation
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