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Judge rejects ‘racially gerrymandered’ maps in Texas that gave Republicans extra districts
(www.theguardian.com)
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Why not?
fptp is about choice of candidate and counting who comes out on top in an area, where gerrymandering is about geography… you can still pack and crack an STV/RCV system… ie if everyone is able to and does vote for the candidate they want (rather then defensive voting etc) then you can still make a single district have 100% of 1 candidates votes and another 2 with 51% of another
in australia we have an STV system, but we also have independent bodies that draw the district boundaries and various things to stop gerrymandering
I seem to be missing something here...
If I understand FPTP correctly, it means that only the majority holder of votes in a single district gets full representation of that district, right?
So if A gets 51% and B gets 49%, A gets to represent the entire district, right?
Without FPTP, the district result doesn't matter at all, since it is the total number of votes that matter, not a designated winner of a district.
So since the result of a district election doesn't matter for the end result of the election, there is little point to spend time and resources to gerrymander anymore.
Have I understood the issue correctly?
That depends entirely on what FPTP is replaced with. Any system with local representitives can be gerrymandered to reduce the representation of certain groups, with the exception of MMP where you can still gerrymander but it doesn't affect representation. That includes ranked choice, approval voting, etc. That's not to say these aren't better, of course with better local representation the effectiveness of gerrymandering is reduced, but it is not eliminated. The only way to eliminate gerrymandering is with a proportional system.
that’s largely correct, but there are multiple parts to the ballot system: FPTP, RCV, etc are means of counting ballots, but another part is proportional vs representative
you can have representative with RCV (that’s what australia is)
Yes that's true, systems like FPTP and IRV (as used in australia) are single-winner and thus require a local representation system, but you could use ranked-choice in a proportional system.
Is this what New York has?