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Real choices/new voices: the case for proportional representation elections in the United States

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This text argues that plurality rules are unfair, outmoded and undemocratic and that the US should adopt a different electoral system, proprotional representation, by which officials are elected in multimember districts according to the proportion of the vote won by their parties.

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This text argues that plurality rules are unfair, outmoded and undemocratic and that the US should adopt a different electoral system, proprotional representation, by which officials are elected in multimember districts according to the proportion of the vote won by their parties.

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This text argues that plurality rules are unfair, outmoded and undemocratic and that the US should adopt a different electoral system, proprotional representation, by which officials are elected in multimember districts according to the proportion of the vote won by their parties.

Key concepts: Representation (politics), Proportional representation, Political science, History, Politics, Law, Democracy

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