There may be [no perfect voting system](http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=5532), but [the Fair Representation Act](http:\/\/www.fairvote.org\/) is trying to improve the biggest problems:<\/p>\n
* Voters are currently incentivized to vote for “the best person they think can actually win”, rather than their actual favorite candidate
\n* Only a single person represents a group of often diverse interests
\n* Gerrymandering has created bizarre voting districts that bear little or no resemblance to actual communities<\/p>\n
By requiring broader districts, and electing multiple people from that district (rather than one each from smaller ones), the authors hope to represent a wider range of views in Congress. By offering [ranked choice (or “instant runoff”) voting](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Instant-runoff_voting), they hope to eliminate the strategic and suboptimal voting patterns that favor only the major parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There may be [no perfect voting system](http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=5532), but [the Fair Representation Act](http:\/\/www.fairvote.org\/) is trying to improve the biggest problems: * Voters are currently incentivized to vote for “the best person they think can actually win”, rather than their actual favorite candidate * Only a single person represents a group of often diverse interests * Gerrymandering…more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,377],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decisions","category-politics-2","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1tm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5665,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664\/revisions\/5665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}