Footnote to PitAK: STV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI Also, STICKERS! http://goo.gl/eUAQid.
========== Imagine you're in charge of government and you decide that it's time to take your existing jungle council and you're going to switch it over to STV. One of the things that is an option is because STV requires there to be more than one representative per range, you can either triple, at a bare minimum or quintuple the number of politicians you have, which might be something you want to do but there many good reasons why you might not want to do that. Here's a more reasonable way in which you actually switch over a country to STV. Here is a map of our current electoral ranges each of which sends one representative. So, Step 1 is we're going to get rid of all these ranges and we're going to redraw the boundaries. So instead of everybody getting elected from one range we're going to draw ranges that have five repr...