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SUMMARY: How to Improve America’s Voting System
DESCRIPTION: Professor of Economics Eric Maskin contends that the country’s
  traditional voting system distorts how citizens are represented and that g
 errymandering exploits and worsens these distortions. He will discuss other
  possible voting systems and how they could make America's election results
  fairer.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p>This year’s gerrymandering wars are the mo
 st vicious in recent memory. Nobel Prize winning economist\, <a href="https
 ://maskin.scholars.harvard.edu/">Eric Maskin</a>\, who contends that the co
 untry’s traditional voting system distorts how citizens are represented\, a
 rgues that gerrymandering exploits and worsens these distortions and that c
 hanging how Americans vote could make election results fairer. Come learn a
  little about other possible voting systems-- European-style proportional r
 epresentation\, majority-rule voting (like ranked choice voting)\, and mult
 i-member districting—and explore with him how each method would play out in
  the U.S. context to produce more truly representative electoral results. <
 em>Lunch will be provided</em>. <a href="https://forms.gle/qCDivsNfdwe1QAFc
 9">Registration Required</a>.</p>
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LOCATION:Langdell Hall\; 232/233 Langdell
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ORGANIZER;CN="Emily Rider Neill":MAILTO:eneill@law.harvard.edu
URL;VALUE=URI:https://hls.harvard.edu/events/how-to-improve-americas-voting
 -system/
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