Really good explainer video from Vox on why expanding the House - and adding an option for multi-member districts with ranked choice voting - would make our democracy more democratic.

@SeanCasten Same with the SCOTUS. Should be at least two justices per district, if not half a dozen per.

@SeanCasten I saw that! It was great!

I used to be a big fan of proportional rep and multi-member district, but I'm watching Europe's parliaments get totally deadlocked and not be able to keep government running, and I'm wondering if multi-member isn't helping.

Has anyone tried something like the US system but just with RCV*?

* By RCV, I mean any modern voting system, I'm not picky... approval, condorcent, ranked, whatever...they're all better.

@qkslvrwolf the smart political scientist types we talked to in working on our bill weren't wild about RCV only if it includes instant run off because of the possibility for weird outcomes where randos could get in by being everyone's 2nd favorite. So if you do RCV only, it's better suited to narrow the field and then have a 2nd race with the top vote getters.

@qkslvrwolf (Obviously this doesn't apply in a multimember situation since the weird effects of ranking don't come into play.)

@SeanCasten Thank you for responding! Yeah, I know the folks that do the math tend to be really worried about that but I'd be curious to see how it worked out if we tried it at scale.

But also, I'm not too worried about a second round, although I get that gets into cost.

My layman's impression just watching the world, though, is that multi-member districting seems to come with some severe polarization issues of it's own, whereas the evidence we have is 1-person RCV seems to encourage work

@SeanCasten I’ve been waiting for someone to start making a push for this in order to dilute the effect of money in politics, but I fear that in letting the billionaire become a trillionaire class that it is already too late. I think a larger Congress needs to be paired with campaign finance and lobbying legislation with the loopholes closed … as well as tax law to cut this obscene wealth down to size.