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=== Isn't PLACE too complicated? ===
=== Why should voters be able to affect other districts they don't live in? Why should any district be represented by a winner who didn't get the most votes in that district? ===
The most important thing for you as a voter is to have somebody you helped elect representing you in the legislature. Obviously, in a single-member district, it's impossible for the one winner to be a good representative for all the voters; there will always be at least a substantial minority, and in many cases even a majority, who voted against that representative.
The only way to resolve this is to have more than one seat that each vote might affect. That means that some people's truest representative will not be in their own district. If you don't win locally, then, to help you figure out which representative is responsible for listening to you, the party you voted for will assign one of its winning representatives to cover your district.
=== Doesn't delegation give too much power to candidates? ===
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