Proportional Representation

[Iori Komei]

Proportional Representation, one of the two largest voting systems in Democratic countries.
Proportional representation is a system i which the total vote is distributed according to how many votes a party gets.

An example of this would be this;
The upper house has 100 seats, the Socialists party gets 54% of the vote, the Liberal party gets 20% of the vote, the Green party gets 16% of the vote and the Conservative party gets 10% of the vote.
This results in all parties receiving more than 1% of the vote being given an amount of seats equal to the rounded percent of the vote they receive.


Proportional representation is used by 81 countries (not counting territories and mixed systems) from every continent (excluding Antarctica).

It's used in every democratic system be it Parliamentary democracy, the semi-presidential system or even a presidential republic.


So, after reading all of that, what is everyones thoughts on proportional representation?

[Yo Mama]

I would prefer it to the mess we currently have, but if you mess with the Constitution, it gives nut jobs the idea they can do it too, so it's kind of a sticky situation.

[skunk]

Sounds fine and dandy, but you would need people to actually come out and vote. The religious right nutjobs vote, but young people don't. Neither do poor people.

Blacks get the worst education, voting booths, and most of their ballots tend to be destroyed "magically."

Fucking voting. We need a revolution.

[Iori Komei]

I forgot to include my thoughts on it.

I support a mixed system within the bounds of a Federal structure.
That is I think the lower house (house of representatives) should be elected using proportional representation, with the amount of representatives being base don the national population and having a Senate using an individual system, with two senators being elected from each state, of course I also think Senators should have to be politically independent.