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#1) What is Proportional Representation?
#2) How can I become part of the movement for PR?
#3) Are there any other PR web sites?
#4) Where is PR used in the US and Canada?
#5) What are the main types of PR?
#6) *What are the main types of modified-at-large systems?
#7) *What about single-winner elections?
#8) *Doesn't PR lead to fragmented governments?
#9) *Isn't PR really, really complicated?
#10) How is a preference vote election tallied?
#11) *Wouldn't PR be expensive to administrate?
#12) What books/periodicals do you recommend people read?
#13) *Wouldn't PR require a constitutional ammendment?
#14) What countries use PR?
#15) What are the claimed advantages of PR?
#16) What are the claimed disadvantages of PR?
#17) *How would PR affect smaller parties?
#18) *How would PR affect the representation of women?
#19) *How would PR affect the representation of ethnic minorities?
#20) What non-governmental groups use PR or IRV?
#21) Doesn't Arrow's Theorem prove that preference voting is fatally flawed?
#22) What software is available to process PR elections?
#23) What hardware is available to process PR elections?
#24) *How are candidates selected under PR?
#25) *How are the votes counted under PR?
#26) Isn't PR the same as the Parliamentary System of Government?
#27) Isn't proportional representation really a quota system?
#28) How would PR work in California's Assembly?
#29) Where is Cumulative Voting used in the U.S.?
#30) When was PR first invented? And when was it first used?
#31) How does PR result in more positive, issue-oriented election campaigns?