Congrats, you have written the dumbest take I've read today
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.
You can have an electoral division of your country without gerrymandering. Cf most european countries.
This is a very cynical point of view that would make it even less possible for independants to be represented in the House, remove town halls from the system, and therefore make the entire system even less democratic and remove the entire point of a representative democracy.
There is zero benefit to this.
Area based voting is a necessity for electing a local representative. But it shouldn't apply for national elections, on that I agree. The US is the only country I know of that applies area based voting in national elections.
You don't want that. France tried that, a couple of times, it didn't work. Government ended up deadlocked and falling every 6 months. Our 5th republic granted more power to the presidency, and now it's a little better.
What you do want, however, is the head of state and the head of government to be two distinct persons. Which is not the case in the USA.
Three problems:
- It makes voting more complex. Having citizens able to make their opinion heard is important, but it should be separate from voting, unless you want an even larger abstention.
- The matching problem doesn't necessarily have a solution. As in, it might be (and is actually likely) impossible to have a set of representatives that matches the percentages of each opinion.
- Not all opinions can be expressed in a multiple choice question. Most topics are way too complex to be summarised in a few options. So, who picks the few authorized opinions?
The point of representatives is that they each represent a small portion of the population. If you remove districts, then who are house members representing?
Oh I'm already out, but only of your shitty products.
Did you reply to the wrong comment? I don't understand
redflag number 2: not seeing the issue with accepting 250k lines of code generated by AI supervised by a teenager without a software engineering background