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strange?" Answers regarding single-winner methods are elsewhere. #1) What is Proportional Representation? #2) How can I become part of the movement for PR? #4) Where is PR used in the US and Canada? #5) What are the main types of PR? #9) Isn't PR really complicated? #10) How is a choice voting election tallied? #11) Wouldn't PR be expensive to administer? #12) What books/periodicals do you recommend people read? #14) What countries use PR? #15) What are the claimed advantages of PR? #16) What are the claimed disadvantages of PR? #20) What non-governmental groups use PR or IRV? #21) Doesn't Arrow's Theorem prove that all voting methods are flawed? #22) What software is available to process PR elections? #23) What hardware is available to process PR elections? #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? |
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