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Next up, I want to go back to, so there was that historical note about single member districts

or statewide at-large voting. And this is a solution

that I have heard bandied about quite a bit. It sounds very hopeful and positive to me as someone

who believes that democracy should be fair. I don't know if I'm in the majority in this country

with that way of thinking. But to learn a little bit

about single member districts and other ideas, we have this article from Fair Vote. And so it

points out that for the first 66 years of the country, states had their choice. They could have

single member districts or multi-member

at-large districts. They could do whatever they want. The problem was the way they counted votes at the time,

multi-member districts would end up with one party taking all of the seats, which sounds absurd,

and you're right. So there would be like 10 people running from each party.

And then the parties would run their elections and they'd get the votes.

And a party could get like 51% of the vote.

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