<x-flowed>There is another alternative that is seldom proposed, but would provide a much more rational method of representation. It would be to send anyone who got some minimum number of votes to the legislature, and have each such member cast as many votes as were cast for him in the election. In other words, a kind of proxy voting system, such as that used in corporation shareholder meetings.
Applied to the U.S. Congress, it would not require a constitutional amendment. The House of Representatives could simply adopt rules that would count each act of voting by a member as the number of voters who voted for him or her. Nothing in the Constitution says each member only casts one vote when he votes. That wouldn't work for the Senate, because of the equal representation provision, but if the House of Representatives used such a system, it would enable minority voices to be heard.

-- Jon

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