In 1996, the League of United Latin American Citizens had sued Boerne, Texas, to force the city to use Cumulative Voting to elect its 5-member city council. Hispanic residents of Boerne had never been able to elect one of their own to the city council under the at-large system. The lawsuit was successful, and starting in 1997, Boerne used Cumulative Voting. Cumulative Voting gives each voter multiple votes (sometimes two, sometimes three). Each voter is permitted to use all of his or her votes to help just one candidate, or, alternatively, the voter can spread the votes around to several candidates.
Cumulative voting appeared to end in Boerne earlier this month. The League, dissatisfied with the cumulative voting experience, had persuaded the city council to stop using that system, and instead to establish single-member districts. The federal judge who had jurisdiction of the 1996 case also approved the change. However, now a group that doesn’t like single-member districts is threatening to sue the city, because the city charter establishes at-large districts and the city charter can only be changed by the voters. See this story.
P.R. = Total Votes / Total Seats = EQUAL votes for each seat winner.
Way too difficult for ALL math M-O-R-O-N-S to understand — who never had math or slept through publik skooool math classes ???
Plaintiffs, plaintiff lawyers, lower courts and even the appointed party hack Supremes — to say nothing about the math challenged juveniles and party hacks on this list ???
Just to save time and effort, why don’t you tell us who you think is NOT a moron???
#2 Perhaps everybody who is NOT a Mom’s imposter and/or a math MORON ???
A *democratic* legislative body exists ONLY because ALL of the Electors-Voters can NOT assemble and vote on legislation in person in most cases — thus the requirement for elected legislative bodies.
The New Age gerrymanders began when such in person meetings ended — a LONG time ago.
Way to difficult for political *science* MORONS to understand — especially the party hack appointed Supremes — sleeping through those publik skooool civics / government classes (if they even took them).
For non-MORONS — there is a near TOTAL brain dead population regarding BASIC stuff.
See the Jay Leno TV show with his nonstop armies of math, history and science *all stars* MORONS — funny to a point — and then it is deadly serious.
P.R. and nonpartisan A.V. = democracy and life
Gerrymanders and party hack appointments = minority rule and death.
Can even MORONS detect the difference between life and death these *politically correct* days of more and more stupidity — especially in the New Age gerrymander regimes in DC and the State capitols ???
Illinois formerly used cumulative voting to elect its state House of Representatives.
# 4 The list of defective political stuff in the EVIL rotten past is endless — ALL of it is not too useful regarding the RIGHT NOW minority rule gerrymander CRISIS in the U.S.A. — except as lessons in what NOT to do.
Not single member districts – NOT cumulative voting – NOT limited voting – NOT IRV – NOT NPV and all other statutory fix type stuff.