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Gerrymandering is drawing district lines to advantage a party or group. It is measured with metrics such as the efficiency gap, partisan bias, mean-median difference and declination.
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Voters rank candidates in order of preference. If no one wins a majority of first choices, the last-place candidate is eliminated and those ballots move to their next choice, repeating until someone has a majority.
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The framers chose it late in the 1787 Convention as a compromise, mostly because legislative selection and a direct popular vote each seemed worse.
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