I never see the AI summary in Firefox, and I'm very happy abiut this!

You can also change your search engine from "Google" to "Google Web" and then never think about it again.
tedium.co/2024/05/17/g...

The Fair Redistricting Act would create multi-member districts of 3 to 5 seats each in states with enough seats (i.e., at least 3).

... Which is, of course, election by winner-take-all single-member districts (SMDs), which make the gerrymandering wars inevitable. I explain the problem here, in the form of a Socratic dialogue. (tl;dr: there is no such thing as a fair map with SMDs) (2/2)
leedrutman.substack.com/p/democracy-...

Tempting! Do you have a Florida precinct shapefile with population and election data loaded and ready to go?

Haven't had time to do a deep dive, but it looks pretty bad. They seem to have made a few more Republican districts without compromising the ones they already had. They've also increased packing and cracking of minority voters, and they're already being sued for that with the current map, so...???

That’s Borda count, not RCV (or more precisely, Instant Runoff Voting, or IRV). In IRV your first place vote is the only one counted until that candidate is eliminated, and then your vote transfers to your highest-ranked candidate who hasn’t been eliminated yet.

Congratulations!! 🎉

I am BEYOND thrilled that the data collection/archiving provisions survived and made it into the final bill; this will be a huge boon for all sorts of election analysis for Colorado elections! 7/7

It requires the Secretary of State to collect and make publicly available data including precinct-level election results and - this is BIG! - precinct MAPS for all elections, including local and primary elections. 6/7

(2) Thanks to the efforts of myself and my colleague Beth Malmskog working together with the League of Women Voters of Colorado, the bill establishes rules for election-related data collection and archiving! 5/7

This opens up the possibility of some form of multi-winner proportional representation (e.g., single transferable vote, a.k.a. "proportional RCV") as a remedy for a vote dilution claim. 4/7

(1) It explicitly states that a minority group does not have to be geographically concentrated to file a vote dilution claim - so, no Gingles 1 requirement to show that a majority-minority district can be drawn! 3/7

There are also some important ways in which it goes beyond the federal VRA. Some of these are outside of my domain of expertise, but there are two I want to highlight: 2/7