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Election Reform

NYC_SKP

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1. I like it except that I don't see how #4 is workable.

Reply to Al Carroll (Original post)

Wed Sep 10, 2014, 01:42 PM

Sep 2014

There's going to be nothing but conflict in trying to create a senate with such a specific makeup and still meet that two-per-state requirement unless we go to a completely different system of representation and selection, probably a national one.

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Proposed New Constitution Article 2- Insuring Greater Democracy [View all] Al Carroll Sep 2014 OP

I like it except that I don't see how #4 is workable. NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #1

The two per state is gone Al Carroll Sep 2014 #4

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Just an end to the Senate Al Carroll Sep 2014 #7

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