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moultano on April 7, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lessig: Why Washington is corrupt

If you want to fix the second storm, the thing to push on is PL 90-196, which prohibits states from anything other than single member districts for congressional elections, and was passed in 1967 http://archive.fairvote.org/?page=1724

If that gets repealed then we can start working state by state to switch to some form of proportional representation.

khuey on April 7, 2013 [–]

Wow, I didn't know there was a federal law about this. Do you know if the constitutionality of PL 90-196 has ever been challenged? I'm surprised that the federal government is allowed to tell the states how to allocate their representatives.

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