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OUR WORK

Representing the Golden State

ProRep Coalition | January 2024

Our vision statement making the case for a multiparty democracy in California and the route to reform ProRep is pursuing.

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California's Alternative Parties: Statement of Support for Proportional Representation

ProRep Coalition | February 2024

Learn why California’s largest ballot-qualified alternative parties support proportional representation.

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California's (Un)representative Democracy

CalMatters | November 2024

"...for Californians exhausted by our national duopoly, dissatisfied with our statewide monopoly and yearning for a truly representative democracy, the path forward is clear: We need more parties. We need proportional representation."

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RESOURCES FROM OUR COALITION

Proportional representation, explained

Protect Democracy | December 2023

Learn about proportional representation and how our electoral system shapes our politics.

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What would proportional representation look like in a state legislature?

Protect Democracy | August 2024

Proportionally elected legislatures could yield more competitive, representative, accountable, and authoritarian-resistant state politics.

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Proportional Representation and the Voting Rights Act

Protect Democracy | August 2024

While certain electoral policies can violate the Voting Rights Act by diluting the votes of minority communities, that is rarely, if ever, the case with proportional representation.

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Fix Our House Brief

Fix Our House | 2023

Learn more about the benefits of multi-winner districts and proportional representation with this single-page summary.

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Single-Winner Districts and the Failures of Redistricting

Fix Our House | 2023

Fix Our House's analysis of the 2022 redistricting cycle and how proportional representation would make for fairer districts and more functional politics.

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Debt Limit Chicken: Why Washington Plays Games with Disaster

Fix Our House | 2023

Brinkmanship and crises aren’t random accidents in our democracy – they are inevitable outcomes of an electoral system that incentivizes and rewards them.

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What are Proportional Elections?

More Equitable Democracy | June 2022

A 4-page summary of Proportional Representation produced by More Equitable Democracy.

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Snapshot: List-PR Systems, Quotas & Women's Representation

RepresentWomen | July 2023

Most of the countries (58.1%) that use list-PR and have gender quotas have high/above average women's representation.

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What is Proportional Representation (PR)?

Californians for Electoral Reform

With PR, legislatures are elected from multi-seat districts in proportion to the number of votes received: 20% of the popular votes wins 20% of the seats, 50% of votes win 50% of seats, etc.

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