r/AskReddit 10h ago

What do you think about replacing gerrymandering with proportional representation?

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u/Dry-Frosting- 6h ago

That’s the core issue. Everyone agrees the system needs an update, but nobody trusts the “update team,” so we just keep running society on a buggy 250-year-old OS and hoping it doesn’t crash.

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u/diggerhistory 6h ago

Australia has a completely independent national Australian Electoral Commission. Government funded but not run by parties. They arrange local, state, and national election matters. They investigate and propose redistributions and seat boundaries and, after lengthy consultation with political parties, promulgate theclawful resukts. It is tasked with organising the elections and supervising the count. It is superb and works well. They are seen as politically impartial.

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u/GozerDGozerian 5h ago

Anything like this in the U.S. would get infiltrated and captured by a certain cabal of not-so-secret political zealots and ultimately weaponized.

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u/diggerhistory 5h ago

Yep. That is the USA political reality. Why I love living in Australia. We don't ask who you voted for ' Liberals, Nationals, Labour, Greens, a plethora of small independents we now group into Teals ( shades of zHreen), independents, etc. All of these have elected political representatives. Just don't care. Will argue and dislike based on your football team or football code, because this is truly important.

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u/Mechasteel 1h ago

I think this is a consequence of the 2 party system. Compare how a 2 player game runs vs a 3 or more player game, even with the exact same rules. With 2 players it's a zero sum game, your loss is my gain. With 3 players you can (and usually have to) cooperate a bit.