I think we could mostly solve #gerrymandering by making larger districts with ~5 representatives instead of just 1 and then using #SingleTransferableVote. That would strike a nice balance between local & proportional representation. For single-person positions, like presidents/governors/mayors, STV becomes #RankedChoiceVoting (aka #InstantRunoffVoting aka #AlternativeVote) which eliminates the spoiler effect and leads to more civil campaigns.

@jayeless Interesting.

As I understand it, Australian politics for decades have been dominated Labor vs. the Liberal/National coalition. But with the #AlternativeVote , it seems like it should be easy to put together other parties that have a different set of policies: economically liberal but concerned by the environment, for instance, as in the Teal candidates you discuss. Do you have a theory for why we don't see more strong parties in Australian politics?

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