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Our amendment offers alternative solutions and
indeed flexibility.
In 55 legislative bodies out of a total of
99 in the United States there are used combinations of
single and multi-member districts. Maryland could
do so too and still reduce the voter confusion which
results from long ballots.
The minority proposal also permits the use of
the slot system, a system which is used in 18 bodies,
mostly in the Southwest, but including California, a
system where if there are three member delegate districts,
a delegate can run for slot one, slot two, or slot three,
and the people can choose their appointments from those
slots.
The legislature might even use a system which
is in use in the lower house in Illinois, that of cumulative
voting, where if there are three delegates running in
your district you may cast three votes for any one of
three persons, or you can pass two for one and one for
another. This is the kind of a system that could help
to assure these small counties representation. |
