There are no fly-over problems in Proportional Voting at all, Denise, so that is one problem taken care. The line between representative and voters is the shortest of any voting system. Check!

The other problem, getting fair districts, is also taken care of because there are no districts. Check!

Two problems solved with the cleanest voting system in existence. Don't believe it?

Let's say that Geography is the most important issue on the minds of a city population with four council seats, voting proportionally. The result will then be that the voters self-divided into four political regions and each got their representative. No commission was required to draw up the line; the voters self-divvied exactly to the purest format possible. Not kidding. That is, if indeed Geography is Almighty God in politics (spoiler alert: it is not).

Candidates will zoom in to the top items on the voters' minds. The most important issues will be addressed first and geography will become important only if it becomes a neglected issue -- not any time sooner. The voters are in the drivers' seats and dividing voters for whatever reason is always less than voters voting for what they consider most important.

You may not be familiar with Proportional Voting.

A real story to highlight how underserved voters get attention quickly (from a foreign national example) is one in which a whole new Party for the Elderly appeared out of the blue and got 6 out of 150 seats. For the other parties, this was a big surprise. Next election, they are gone, 0 seats.

What happened was that the graying of the population in that nation had not woken up the usual political parties to the specific needs of the elderly. They had neglected the elderly in society, while it had grown in size. The elderly organized themselves, and got 6 seats.

That shook all the usual parties awake (those 6 seats were seats they wanted of course), and a good number started talking to the elderly, and within one election cycle many issues for the elderly had been taken care of to at least some level of satisfaction. Hence, the 0 seats next time around.

The voters expressed themselves, and the candidates and parties could do nothing other than pay attention.

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The truly great part about Proportional Voting is that there is no competition among voters, like we have in District Voting. We compete with each other for the win and do not care about the losers; they remain unrepresented.

All voters -- to the maximum possible -- get the one they voted for in Proportional Voting.

If a City Council has just four seats, then 80% of the voters can point their fingers either to the one they handpicked themselves or to someone that is the best possible stand-in for their vote. And that 80% is the bare minimum.

With nine seats on the council, that bare minimum becomes 90%.

In District Voting, the candidates must win the majority, which is 50% plus one vote; they need not connect all that much with the voters because then they must make promises they really cannot keep. They try to optimize, but they are not a good fit.

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At the Federal level, we do not want twenty little parties. I think we can all agree. The way things are, that is also not going to change any time soon. I'd even say -- impossible to change it. So, we need not even discuss changing the Federal level’s voting system, even when we agree an update is in place.

The State level is where we should get more parties. But four to six parties is probably plenty. Voters can vote that in place; but they won’t if they do not know anything better than what they know now. We are not an educated nation in light of voting systems. Most folks know nothing real about proportional voting.

At the City level, most places I have looked at don't even have ten seats on the council. So there are never ever going to be twenty little parties. With ten seats, there may be three or four political colors expressed, not even necessarily parties (which is by law not allowed).

So at the local level, we should get the purest form of representation. Not At-Large, not District Voting. Only Proportional Voting respects all voters. Only Proportional Voting makes the candidates line themselves up for the voters, and special interests are out. Actually, special interests are out in the open, no longer hiding behind the superficial candidates' programs and their then getting quid-pro-quo. It will be quite obvious who says what, and special interests are fine doing just that, too. Up front, out in the open. Then, the voters decide.

That is political freedom.

We can get it today at the local level because the Founding Fathers are with us.

Citizens are Invoking the US Constitution because we should already have Proportional Voting at the local level, says the Bill of Rights.

https://fred-rick.medium.com/citizens-invoking-the-us-constitution-325c17290881

Thank you, Denise, for your good reply.