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Urgent Need for Electoral Reform Across All States
A friend linked to this article in the Detroit Free Press, and I thought it was worth reposting here:
Nation can't survive system that distorts the majority's will
Even as Republicans strengthen their grip on the legislative process, America’s electoral majority continues moving steadily to the left.
What if the same anomaly becomes commonplace, not just in presidential balloting, but in congressional and state legislative elections? How will voters react if their preference for one party’s candidates are routinely expressed as electoral victories for the opposing party?
Michigan has already witnessed the normalization of this disconnect between the voters’ electoral preferences and those of their elected representatives.
Nation can't survive system that distorts the majority's will
Even as Republicans strengthen their grip on the legislative process, America’s electoral majority continues moving steadily to the left.
What if the same anomaly becomes commonplace, not just in presidential balloting, but in congressional and state legislative elections? How will voters react if their preference for one party’s candidates are routinely expressed as electoral victories for the opposing party?
Michigan has already witnessed the normalization of this disconnect between the voters’ electoral preferences and those of their elected representatives.