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Temporal Proportional Representation offers new voting system

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A new voting system called Temporal Proportional Representation (TPR) aims to achieve proportionality over time rather than in a single election. One proposed method, the "Wasted Vote Refund," allows voters to accumulate votes, with winners paying a portion of their votes back to the pool, effectively transferring them to losers in future elections. This system is designed to ensure that over a series of elections, the vote distribution closely mirrors the overall voter preference, even for single-seat offices. AI

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  1. LessWrong (AI tag) TIER_1 Italiano(IT) · thomascolthurst ·

    Temporal Proportional Representation

    <p><span>Ezra Klein has </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-lee-drutman.html" rel="noreferrer"><span>a new podcast episode out discussing proportional representation</span></a><span> (PR), so I thought I would point out that there is a li…

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