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What is "Full Representation"?
 
Full Representation is a more fair means of carrying out Congressional elections.  A 1967 law mandates single-seat Congressional districts, restraining the vast majority of Congressional elections from being competitive.  Full representation (sometimes called proportional representation) is more fair.  Adjacent congressional districts are joined to form a multi-member superdistrict.  Gerrymandering district lines is impossible because there are no lines!  See the following page for a sample ballot to see how voters can rank candidates for office according to their priorities.  The key is that a particular block of voters can vote a candidate into office now with only 20% of the overall vote (in the case of a 5-member superdistrict) rather than 50%.  Because of the proportional nature of voting power, neither the minority nor the majority in a district is left out of representation--hence the name "Full Representation".  Furthermore, because third parties are no longer "spoilers" as they commonly become in single-member districts, there is also an opening for third-party candidates to occasionally emerge, providing healthy, quintessentially American-style competition and free speech to the political process.  Representation is based on what you think rather than where you live.

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