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Could PR Help In Voting Rights Cases?

April 26, 2017cases help PR Rights voting

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Could PR Help In Voting Rights Cases?

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Absolutely. With PR, you actually need less votes to gain a seat than in the winner-take-all system, and you can gather these votes from a larger area. This makes it easier for racial or political minority perspectives to win seats, WITHOUT having to gerrymander districts. In June 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Miller v. Johnson that racially gerrymandered districts are unconstitutional. Voting rights experts like Lani Guinier, Ed Still and Rob Richie have proposed various forms of PR as a race-neutral method to give racial as well as political minorities and women a fair chance to elect representatives in competitive elections.