Would the Voters Choice Act require states to change their electoral system?
No. The Act would restore to states different options for electing their representatives. It removes a mandate established in 1967 that requires use of single-member districts. Do proportional systems and cumulative voting violate the “one person, one vote” rule? No. “One person, one vote” means that voters have equal voting power, not that voters have only one vote. Tens of thousands of offices in the United States — including many state legislative seats — are elected in multi-seat districts where voters have more than one vote. The Department of Justice under both Republican and Democratic presidents has upheld numerous local requests to use proportional systems. Would states be able to use traditional at-large voting and manipulate election results? No. States will be able to use multi-member districts if and only if they use a proportional or semi-proportional voting system. The highest permitted threshold of representation (i.e., the maximum percentage of votes a candidate can
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