A California non-profit 501(c)(3) organization called “Innovate Your State” has set up a “Fix California Challenge”, in which California voters are able to read about, comment upon, and vote for, ideas to improve California government. One of the proposals is to elect at least one house of the California legislature using proportional representation. Steve Chessin, president of Californians for Electoral Reform, wrote the proposal, which can be read here.
Californians who register with “Innovate Your State” can vote on this proposal, or any proposal. After one is signed up, large arrows appear above and below the vote tally. A vote is cast by clicking on one of the arrows. The proposal went up on July 1 and so far it has five “yes” votes.
This is great news. When it comes to being a laboratory of democracy, California is the MIT of experimentation.
Though I am in Pennsylvania, I would love to help out in any way I can to raise awareness and get this proposal put before the state’s voters.
P.R. has been around since the 1840s (repeat 1840s) in CIVILIZED nations —
UNLIKE the DARK AGE nations — U.K, U.S.A., India, etc. with their DARK AGE ANTI-Democracy minority rule pack/crack gerrymander districts — with the resulting POWERMAD robot party hack legislators in their special interest gang conspiracies.
Basic P.R. —
Party Seats = Total Seats x Party Votes / Total Votes