Writer's Block: Change of Law

[grysar]

[Error: unknown template qotd]I'd change the U.S. electoral laws. Switch the Senate to being elected by proportional vote (dropping the two Senators to a state thing), get house races more competitive (I don't particularly care which of many good options would be used) and the Presidency to Single Transferable Vote or something like it.

I think those changes would help revitalize our Congress and that other reforms I support would be popular enough to get through the resulting more democratic system. I'm a bit too much of a good governance type to implement my other policies by fiat.

Comments

[grysar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm intentionally undoing what the founders intentionally did. The Senate doesn't protect minority rights, the Senate was where the civil rights movement had to fight its toughest battles. Instead the Senate gives disproprionate power to people who live in underpopulated states.

Under my system, proportional voting, you could get more small parties in (it would probably still be two big parties, that's fairly common). Those smaller parties could represent minority views. I think that ideological diversity is more important than regional diversity.