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YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world

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[–] bufalo1973@europe.pub 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Proportional representatives. Of a party gets a 30%of the votes, it gets a 30%ish of the seats.

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[–] iglou@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

The arguably huge downside of this, is that it cuts the direct line from you to a representative. That undermines democracy, because it undermines your capacity to be heard.

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[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago*

If the "direct line" is theoretical anyway it just doesn't matter anyway.

I don't have any citations sorry, but I did look into this about 15 years ago for reasons I no longer remember, and what I learned is that in most places with large overall populations that uses a system like this, and where leadership is not voted for independently of local representation, the representatives overwhelmingly vote along party leadership not on the community they represent.

Not sure I'm explaining it well sorry

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[–] bufalo1973@europe.pub 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Does your representative ever done something you asked for?

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