A new and detailed analysis by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences recommends that we expand the U.S. House of Representatives by 150 members and elect them through Proportional Ranked Choice Voting.

"On balance, more proportional systems provide:

better public health outcomes, across a number of measures
lower levels of economic inequality
higher satisfaction with democracy
higher levels of subjective well-being."

The Academy was established during the American Revolution by John Adams and of bunch of founding father guys. They probably know a few things about #democracy.

#SingleTransferableVote #ProportionalRepresentation #unCapTheHouse

https://www.amacad.org/ourcommonpurpose/publication/congressional-reform-proportional-representation

Expanding Representation: Reinventing Congress for the 21st Century

American Academy of Arts & Sciences

@americanfietser.bsky.social "no taxation without representation."

I mean, everything you're saying, but this is just one of the signs becoming more obvious lately that we are in a crisis of democracy. Lack of legitimate representation in the USA is real, and has been for a long while . I think #uncapTheHouse and other #votingReform like #RCV are going to have to be part of getting us out of it.

Don't know anything about the author, but I enjoyed this post about expanding the size of the US House by quite a lot. #uncapTheHouse

https://decivitate.jamesjheaney.com/p/expand-the-house-you-cowards

Expand the House, You Cowards

Some Constitutional Amendments #4

De Civitate

It’s Time For the People’s House to Bulk Up

https://lemmy.today/post/30952678

It’s Time For the People’s House to Bulk Up - Lemmy Today

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/843632 [https://piefed.social/post/843632]

Civic Sedevacantism: A United States Government-in-Exile

or, My civic sedevacantism dates to 1972

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Uncap the Senate and the House

I like that the Australian Senate fixes the issue of equal suffrage in a federal system by 1) electing 12 senators per state, using 2) multi-winner ranked-choice voting. At the very least, the U.S.…

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The MAGA revolution is playing with fire

https://lemmy.today/post/25573399

The MAGA revolution is playing with fire - Lemmy Today

Lemmy

@dstndstn @gwynnion Our voting system (first past the post #endFPTP) and various suppression of representation (#uncapTheHouse) , and voter suppression , and lack of campaign finance regulation, all work together to currently ensure no other parties can emerge.

This is also why I have long advocated for expanding the House. #UncapTheHouse

I am also convinced that we should not limit voters to a single party in primary elections. (Still one vote per race but like the general election they can split their ticket.) #OpenPrimaries

These are necessary steps to realign our government to be "of the people, by the people, and for the people" as our founders hoped.

What they designed was calculated to support human flourishing.